Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2020-5741

Plex Media Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Past due Added Federal deadline

What is affected

Vendor Plex
Product Media Server
Weakness CWE-502

The vulnerability

Plex Media Server contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows an attacker with access to the server administrator's Plex account to upload a malicious file via the Camera Upload feature and have the media server execute it.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 31 March 2023 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 13 Nov 2026, 00:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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