Authenticated file deletion via unchecked file ID
Published Jun 24, 2025 · Updated Jun 25, 2025
Improper authorization in Novel-Plus 5.1.0 through 5.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to delete stored files by ID. The FileController.remove endpoint accepts an attacker-supplied file ID, retrieves its path, deletes its database record, and then deletes the corresponding file while its permission annotation remains disabled. Any authenticated account that can guess or obtain another file's ID can remove that file, directly altering stored content and interrupting functions that depend on it.
Summary
What happened
Improper authorization in Novel-Plus 5.1.0 through 5.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to delete stored files by ID. The FileController.remove endpoint accepts an attacker-supplied file ID, retrieves its path, deletes its database record, and then deletes the corresponding file while its permission annotation remains disabled. Any authenticated account that can guess or obtain another file's ID can remove that file, directly altering stored content and interrupting functions that depend on it.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-6534
- Published
- Jun 24, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 25, 2025
- Vendor
- xxyopen
- Product
- Novel-Plus
- Classifications
- CWE-639, CWE-99, CAPEC-240, T1485
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 24, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 25, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.1.0
- Affected versionversion=5.1.1
- Affected versionversion=5.1.2
- Affected versionversion=5.1.3
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- CVE-2025-6534 authenticated arbitrary file deletion proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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