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CVE-2025-14047: WP User Frontend <= 4.2.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Registration, User Profile, Membership, Content Restriction, User Directory, and Frontend Post Submission – WP User Frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'Frontend_Form_Ajax::submit_post' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete attachment.

Affected products

• wedevs User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration: through 4.2.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.2.2/includes/Ajax.php#L25
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.2.2/includes/Ajax.php#L69
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.2.2/includes/Ajax/Frontend_Form_Ajax.php#L133
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.2.2/includes/Ajax/Frontend_Form_Ajax.php#L35
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.2.2/includes/Ajax/Frontend_Form_Ajax.php#L55
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3430352/wp-user-frontend/trunk/includes/Ajax/Frontend_Form_Ajax.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e95b16f-a25a-45c7-a875-2d34a1e127ce?source=cve

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