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CVE-2025-9345: File Manager, Code Editor, and Backup by Managefy <= 1.4.8 - Authenticated (Admin+) Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Download

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The File Manager, Code Editor, and Backup by Managefy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.8 via the ajax_downloadfile() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory.

Affected products

• softdiscover File Manager, Code Editor, and Backup by Managefy: through 1.4.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3350045%40softdiscover-db-file-manager&new=3350045%40softdiscover-db-file-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f53cf99e-3136-4a1d-bbbd-ff484f1df5c3?source=cve

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