The Enable Media Replace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.2. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to modify the post_content of any published post referencing the replaced media — including Administrator-owned posts — making changes immediately visible to unauthenticated visitors. The doReplaceQuery() method performs a database-wide search-and-replace across all posts containing the old media URL without any per-post capability check, meaning a single Author-triggered request can silently overwrite a large number of posts that WordPress's standard admin UI and REST API would otherwise forbid that user from editing.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2026-10-28T07:48:29.420Z
Updated: 2026-10-29T01:41:49.939Z
Reserved: 2026-09-04T13:13:08.079Z
Link: CVE-2026-85655
Updated: 2026-10-29T01:36:49.059Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-28T08:16:30.083
Modified: 2026-10-29T02:16:54.020
Link: CVE-2026-85655
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