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CVE-2025-12971: Folders <= 3.1.5 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Folder Content Manipulation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-27 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-863

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.

Affected products

• premio Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager: through 3.1.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/folders/trunk/includes/folders.class.php#L3291
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3402986/
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-12971/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3845071-8419-4bb2-b22d-f9ae22fb7d6a?source=cve

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