CVE-2025-0818Multiple elFinder Plugins <= (Various Versions) - Directory Traversal to Arbitrary File Deletion
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Several WordPress plugins using elFinder versions 2.1.64 and prior are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in various versions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a site owner to explicitly make an instance of the file manager available to users.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
ninjateam · File Manager Pro – Filester
- affected ≤ 1.8.9
saadiqbal · Advanced File Manager – Ultimate File Manager for WordPress And Document Library Solution
- affected ≤ 5.3.6
File Manager · File Manager Pro
- affected ≤ 8.4.2
References
References8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2a166de-3bdf-4883-91ba-655f2757c53b?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-file-manager/trunk/lib/php/elFinder.class.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/file-manager-advanced/trunk/application/library/php/elFinder.class.php#L5411 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/filester/trunk/includes/File_manager/lib/php/elFinder.class.php#L5378 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder/blob/master/php/elFinder.class.php#L5367 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3319016/filester (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3335715/file-manager-advanced/trunk/application/library/php/elFinder.class.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-24540 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-0818)Record last updated .