Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 27, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-12971

Description

The Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a misconfigured capability check on the 'wcp_change_post_folder' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to move arbitrary folder contents to arbitrary folders.

Affected products

WordPress/Foldersinferred
Range: <=3.1.5
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/folders

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/folders/trunk/includes/folders.class.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3402986/nvd
research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-12971/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3845071-8419-4bb2-b22d-f9ae22fb7d6anvd

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