Media Library Assistant <= 3.33 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Attachment Taxonomy Modification

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2026-3072
CVSS	Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published	March 4, 2026
Last Updated	March 5, 2026
Researcher	Muhammad Sharief

Description

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the mla_update_compat_fields_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.33. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify taxonomy terms on arbitrary attachments.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	media-library-assistant (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 3.33
Patched Version	3.34

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