CVE-2025-14045

The URL Media Uploader plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized safe file uploads due to a missing capability check on the url_media_uploader_url_upload_ajax_handler() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to upload safe media files.

CVSS 3.1

4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-862

Published

2025-12-12

Modified

2026-10-07

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://gist.github.com/jasoncarle/925401bb11833b1ced2342390e20718e
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-media-uploader/tags/1.0.1/url-media-uploader.php#L52
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-media-uploader/trunk/url-media-uploader.php#L52
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/57f09da9-0d2c-45db-b3ed-19a7c9f5a001?source=cve
• https://gist.github.com/jasoncarle/925401bb11833b1ced2342390e20718e

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