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CVE-2025-10647: Embed PDF for WPForms <= 1.1.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

The Embed PDF for WPForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the ajax_handler_download_pdf_media function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Affected products

• salzano Embed PDF for WPForms: through 1.1.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3364156/embed-pdf-wpforms/trunk/includes/class-wpforms-field-pdf-viewer.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-pdf-wpforms/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af67a544-daff-469f-a66b-e998b79b7845?source=cve

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