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CVE-2025-14045: URL Media Uploader <= 1.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Safe File Upload

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2025-12-12 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The URL Media Uploader plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized safe file uploads due to a missing capability check on the url_media_uploader_url_upload_ajax_handler() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to upload safe media files.

Affected products

• apprhyme URL Media Uploader: through 1.0.1

References

• https://gist.github.com/jasoncarle/925401bb11833b1ced2342390e20718e
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-media-uploader/tags/1.0.1/url-media-uploader.php#L52
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-media-uploader/trunk/url-media-uploader.php#L52
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/57f09da9-0d2c-45db-b3ed-19a7c9f5a001?source=cve
• https://gist.github.com/jasoncarle/925401bb11833b1ced2342390e20718e

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