Bit File Manager – 100% Free & Open Source File Manager and Code Editor for WordPress <= 6.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Uploads

6.4
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2025-1725
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published June 2, 2025
Last Updated June 3, 2025
Researcher TANG Cheuk Hei (siunam)

Description

The Bit File Manager – 100% Free & Open Source File Manager and Code Editor for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 6.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.

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Vulnerability Details for File Manager

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug file-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 6.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 6.7
Patched Version
  • 6.8

Recent vulnerabilities in File Manager

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 File Manager 6.0 - 6.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read and Deletion via 'cmd' Query Parameter CVE-2026-15991 8.8 daroo August 5, 2026
2 Bit File Manager – 100% Free & Open Source File Manager and Code Editor for WordPress <= 6.5.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited JavaScript File Upload CVE-2024-8743 6.8 TANG Cheuk Hei (siunam) October 4, 2024
3 Bit File Manager – 100% Free & Open Source File Manager and Code Editor for WordPress <= 6.5.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload CVE-2024-7770 8.8 TANG Cheuk Hei (siunam) September 9, 2024
4 Bit File Manager 6.0 - 6.5.5 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Race Condition CVE-2024-7627 8.1 TANG Cheuk Hei (siunam) September 4, 2024
5 File Manager <= 6.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary OS File Access via Path Traversal CVE-2023-5907 2.2 Dmitrii Ignatyev November 20, 2023
6 Bit File Manager <= 5.2.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2022-47599 7.2 rezaduty April 28, 2023
7 Bit File Manager – 100% free file manager for WordPress <= 5.2.2 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Creation/Upload/Deletion CVE-2022-0403 8.8 Luan Pedersini March 14, 2022
8 Bit File Manager <= 5.0.0 - Information Disclosure CVE-2018-7204 7.5 Colette Chamberland March 2, 2018
9 Bit File Manager <= 4.1.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload 8.8 David Vaartjes March 1, 2017

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