# Post, Registration and Profile Form Builder – FrontEnd Editor BuddyForms – Easy WordPress Forms <= 2.10.0 - Unauthenticated Missing Authorization to Limited Attachment Deletion

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-0581
- **Plugin:** BuddyForms (`buddyforms`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddyforms/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.10.1
- **Fixed in:** 2.10.1 (Update to 2.10.1 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions None seen (as of 2026-10-07)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/buddyforms
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-03
- **Published:** 2026-10-07
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0581/

## Description

The BuddyForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized attachment deletion via the handle_deleted_media AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.0. This is due to an insufficient ownership check that compared the attachment's author with the current user ID, which is 0 for every logged-out visitor. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete attachments that have no author, such as files uploaded by logged-out visitors through public forms.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0581/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddyforms/tags/2.10.1/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddyforms/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0581/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.