CVE-2025-12876: Projectopia – WordPress Project Management <= 5.1.19 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-12-05 · updated 2026-09-25
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Projectopia – WordPress Project Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pto_delete_file AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.19. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary attachments.

Affected products

Projectopia: through 5.1.19

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/projectopia-core/trunk/includes/functions/general/general_functions.php#L389
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3417635/projectopia-core/trunk/includes/functions/general/general_functions.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/940c6a27-05a2-4eca-89ee-b483f88b9524?source=cve

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