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CVE-2025-13419: Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit <= 5.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media 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: 2026-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the '/wp-json/bfe/v1/revert' REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media attachments.

Affected products

• aharonyan Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit: through 5.0.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3432207%40front-editor&new=3432207%40front-editor&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/874b3448-df4c-49c4-bf4f-435cf48f6305?source=cve

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