CVE-2025-11738

Media Library Assistant <= 3.29 - Unauthenticated Limited File Read

2025-10-17 17:26

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 3.30
Affected Plugin: Media Library Assistant
Affected Version: <= 3.29
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-73 · External Control of File Name or Path
CVE: CVE-2025-11738

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At a glance

CVE-2025-11738 is a medium-severity External Control of File Name or Path vulnerability in the Media Library Assistant WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.29. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.30; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2025, reported by Lucas Montes (NiRoX).

Vulnerability Overview

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to limited file reading in all versions up to, and including, 3.29 via the mla-stream-image.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary ai/eps/pdf/ps files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path

The product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations.

Remediation

Update to version 3.30, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Media Library Assistant 3.30 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11738 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/43d1264a-2265-4423-a643-7ef6436d3764 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11738

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CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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