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Frontend File Manager Plugin <= 23.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion

Published Jun 27, 2026

Description

The Frontend File Manager Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authenticated Arbitrary File Deletion in versions up to and including 23.6. This is due to a case-sensitive bypass of the wpfm_dir_path parameter sanitization in the wpfm_file_meta_update AJAX handler, where supplying WPFM_DIR_PATH in uppercase evades the unset check and is normalized to wpfm_dir_path by sanitize_key() during update_post_meta(), allowing an attacker to overwrite the stored file path with an arbitrary filesystem path that is then passed directly to unlink() in delete_file_locally() without any directory containment validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access to delete arbitrary files on the server, including sensitive files such as wp-config.php, potentially leading to full site takeover.

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Remediation

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Weaknesses (1)

References (4)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published Jun 27, 2026
Updated Jun 29, 2026
Reserved May 7, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jun 29, 2026
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 29, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Wordfence
Published Jun 27, 2026
Updated Jun 29, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2026-39968