CVE-2025-12138
URL Image Importer <= 1.0.6 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The URL Image Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to insufficient file type validation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.6. This is due to the plugin relying on a user-controlled Content-Type HTTP header to validate file uploads in the 'uimptr_import_image_from_url()' function which writes the file to the server before performing proper validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible via the uploaded PHP file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.74% · top 45% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 1.0.6
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1da18430-1bd0-4f63-9e22-5d26de2be410?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-image-importer/trunk/url-image-importer.php#L198 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-image-importer/trunk/url-image-importer.php#L1319 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-image-importer/trunk/url-image-importer.php#L1353 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/url-image-importer/trunk/url-image-importer.php#L1358 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3395852%40url-image-importer&new=3395852%40url-image-importer&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file9 (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)
- 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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