Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit <= 5.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Deletion

Description

The Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the '/wp-json/bfe/v1/revert' REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media attachments.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.

Weakness

• CWE-862 Missing Authorization (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-862 and its CVEs

Affected products

• aharonyan · Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit

  • affected ≤ 5.0.0

References (2)

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/874b3448-df4c-49c4-bf4f-435cf48f6305?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3432207%40front-editor&new=3432207%40front-editor&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2025-13419](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2025-13419.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-13419)

Record last updated 8 Apr 2026, 17:05 UTC.