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CVE-2024-5855: Media Hygiene <= 3.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Attachment Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the bulk_action_delete and delete_single_image_call AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments. A nonce check was added in version 3.0.1, however, it wasn't until version 3.0.2 that a capability check was added.

Affected products

• Media Hygiene: before 3.0.2 — fixed in 3.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Media Hygiene 3.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3112249%40media-hygiene&new=3112249%40media-hygiene&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/44b02690-462a-458b-88c9-89acc9c209cb?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3112249%40media-hygiene&new=3112249%40media-hygiene&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/44b02690-462a-458b-88c9-89acc9c209cb?source=cve

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