Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8357

Description

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion in the /wp-content/uploads directory due to insufficient file path validation and user capability checking in the _process_mla_download_file function in all versions up to, and including, 3.27. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server from the /wp-content/uploads/ directory.

Affected products

WordPress/Media Library Assistantinferred
Range: <=3.27
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-assistant

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.26/includes/class-mla-main.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8726375f-de67-4c92-9cf8-1bfb7330f327nvd

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