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CVE-2026-3072
Media Library Assistant <= 3.33 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Attachment Taxonomy Modification
Medium4.3EPSS 0.23%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the mla_update_compat_fields_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.33. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify taxonomy terms on arbitrary attachments.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
dglingren · Media Library Assistant
- affected ≤ 3.33
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2655f936-8177-4836-a0b0-1c637290a3bc?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.32/includes/class-mla-media-modal-ajax.php#L628 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.32/includes/class-mla-media-modal-ajax.php#L594 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3469795%40media-library-assistant%2Ftrunk&old=3465434%40media-library-assistant%2Ftrunk&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)
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