CVE-2025-3234
Published: 14 June 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-3234 is a high-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 19.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The File Manager Pro – Filester plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in all versions up to and including 1.8.8. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-3234 with a CVSS score of 7.2 and classified under CWE-434, affects the plugin's file handling component and allows unauthenticated file-type checks to be bypassed during uploads.
Authenticated attackers holding Administrator privileges can exploit the issue to upload arbitrary files to the server, which may enable remote code execution. Site administrators can also extend file-manager access to lower-privileged roles such as subscribers, increasing the potential impact on affected installations.
A fix is available in the referenced WordPress plugin changeset that updates the trunk version beyond 1.8.8, and the Wordfence advisory provides additional vulnerability details for remediation planning.
The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0137 with no material increase observed.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-18320
Vulnerability details
The File Manager Pro – Filester plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and…
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above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible. Administrators have the ability to extend file manager usage privileges to lower-level users including subscribers, which would make this vulnerability more severe on such sites.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Requiring identifiable owners for portable devices reduces the attack surface for unrestricted uploads of dangerous file types via anonymous media.
Dangerous file uploads can be detonated in the chamber to determine malice before any production write or execution occurs.
Prevents unrestricted writing of arbitrary or malicious firmware by keeping hardware write-protect enabled except under tightly controlled manual procedures.
Scans files from external sources on download/open/execute, blocking unrestricted uploads of dangerous file types.