CVE-2025-0818

Impact

Several WordPress plugins using elFinder versions 2.1.64 and prior are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in various versions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a site owner to explicitly make an instance of the file manager available to users.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder
• https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder/blob/master/php/elFinder.class.php#L5367
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/file-manager-advanced/trunk/application/library/php/elFinder.class.php#L5411
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/filester/trunk/includes/File_manager/lib/php/elFinder.class.php#L5378
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-file-manager/trunk/lib/php/elFinder.class.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3319016/filester
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3335715/file-manager-advanced/trunk/application/library/php/elFinder.class.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2a166de-3bdf-4883-91ba-655f2757c53b?source=cve