CVE-2025-12971

medium

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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3845071-8419-4bb2-b22d-f9ae22fb7d6a?source=cve

https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-12971/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3402986/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/folders/trunk/includes/folders.class.php#L3291

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-11-27

Updated: 2025-11-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00026