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CVE-2025-0818: Multiple elFinder Plugins <= (Various Versions) - Directory Traversal to Arbitrary File Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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 products

• saadiqbal Advanced File Manager – Ultimate File Manager for WordPress And Document Library Solution: through 5.3.6
• File Manager Pro: through 8.4.2
• ninjateam File Manager Pro – Filester: through 1.8.9

References

• 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

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