CVE-2025-14508 Missing authorization in MediaCommander – Bring Folders to Media, Posts, and Pages
Authenticated Author-level users can delete all media folder organization data due to a missing capability check on the import-csv REST API endpoint.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14508?
CVE-2025-14508 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in yalogica MediaCommander – Bring Folders to Media, Posts, and Pages, published on 13 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The MediaCommander – Bring Folders to Media, Posts, and Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data deletion due to a missing capability check on the import-csv REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.1. This is due to the endpoint using `upload_files` capability check (Author level) for a destructive operation that can delete all folders. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to delete all folder organization data created by Administrators and other users.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14508?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14508?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14508 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-14508 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14508 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jfwj-h3pg-849c.