CVE-2025-8889 (GCVE-0-2025-8889)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-09 06:00 – Updated: 2025-11-13 20:58
VLAI
Title
Compress Then Upload < 1.0.5 - Admin+ Arbitrary File Upload
Summary
The Compress & Upload WordPress plugin before 1.0.5 does not properly validate uploaded files, allowing high privilege users such as admin to upload arbitrary files on the server even when they should not be allowed to (for example in multisite setup)
Severity
3.8 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5d84a577-62aa-4a… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Compress & Upload Affected: 0 , < 1.0.5 (semver)
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Credits
Muhammed Çelik WPScan
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