WordPress Media Author Plugin <= 1.0.4 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability

published 2025-09-05 last yr. modified 2026-10-05 last mo. also EUVD-2025-26936

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits: 0; none known

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in John Luetke Media Author media-author allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Media Author: from n/a through <= 1.0.4.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last yr. (2025-09-05)

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected products

John Luetke Media Author

Classification

Weakness

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/media-author/vulnerability/wordpress-media-author-plugin-1-0-4-broken-access-contro
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-58841
NVD CVE-2025-58841

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