Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files: A security weakness
Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 05, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Nov 05, 2025 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access/modification/loss of data in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the "bplde_save_document_library", "bplde_get_all", "bplde_get_single", and "bplde_delete_document_library" functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create, read, update, and delete arbitrary document_library posts.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L