FKIE_CVE-2026-3072

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-05 06:16 - Updated: 2026-04-22 21:27
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.32/includes/class-mla-media-modal-ajax.php#L594
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/tags/3.32/includes/class-mla-media-modal-ajax.php#L628
security@wordfence.comhttps://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=
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2655f936-8177-4836-a0b0-1c637290a3bc?source=cve
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