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Enable Media Replace · Version history

Enable Media Replace changelog and version history

Latest version
4.2.3
Oct 26, 2026 (13 days ago)
Releases
86
since 2009
In the last year
7
about one every 54 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 20094 releases
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  • 20116 releases
  • 20122 releases
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  • 20188 releases
  • 201910 releases
  • 20208 releases
  • 20214 releases
  • 20223 releases
  • 20237 releases
  • 20241 release
  • 20252 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 4.2.3Latest

    • Release date: October 26, 2026 * Fix: Hardened the database replacements against a possible PHP Object Injection, which could be exploited under certain conditions, safely disclosed by the Wordfence, PatchStack and WPScan teams; * Fix: Users with the Author role now only see the standard replace op…

  2. Enable Media Replace 4.2.2

    • Release date: June 28, 2026 * Fix: A potential stored XSS via the display name has been fixed, following the responsible disclosure from the PatchStack team; * Fix: A fatal error was thrown in a very specific edge case; * Compat: Fixed the composer file to publish the plugin on packagist.org.

  3. Enable Media Replace 4.2.1

    • Release date: June 24, 2026 * Compat: Updated the integration with Breakdance builder to also work with the upcoming 2.8.0 version.

  4. Enable Media Replace 4.2.0

    • Release date: June 17, 2026 * New: Updated the plugin design and user interface; * New: Added hooks/filters to programmatically select the default replacement method; * New: Added cache plugin integrations for FastPixel, Breeze(Cloudways), and Cache Enabler(KeyCDN). EMR will now automatically purge…

  5. Enable Media Replace 4.1.9

    • Release date: April 22, 2026 * Fix: open_basedir warnings should be gone now for more restrictive hosts; * Fix: Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability via the ‘location_dir’ parameter, responsibly disclosed by the WordFence team; * Compat: Updated the hook used for the LS Cache plugin integratio…

  6. Enable Media Replace 4.1.8

    • Release date: March 3, 2026 * Fix: Unauthorized modification and deletion of media files vulnerability responsibly disclosed by the WordFence team; * Fix: The plugin works for RTL languages now; * Fix: Textdomain modules are loaded properly in all cases; * Tweak: Added a permission check for the Sh…

20252 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 4.1.7

    • Release date: October 2, 2025 * Fix: A potential “Cross-Site Scripting” vulnerability has been patched, responsibly disclosed by the WordFence team; * Fix: Corrected a few text typos.

  2. Enable Media Replace 4.1.6

    • Release date: March 25, 2025 * Fix: A potential “Reflected Cross-Site Scripting” vulnerability has been patched, responsibly disclosed by the PatchStack team.

20241 release

  1. Enable Media Replace 4.1.5

    • Release date: December 14, 2023 * Tweak: Added a filter to disable the remote notification system added in version 4.1.0; * Fix: A potential “Reflected Cross-Site Scripting” vulnerability has been patched, responsibly disclosed by the Wordfence team.

20237 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 4.1.4

    • Release date: September 22, 2023 * Fix: The latest security fix was breaking the replacements made with Beaver Builder (and possibly other builders);

  2. Enable Media Replace 4.1.3

    • Release date: September 14, 2023 * Fix: A possible PHP Object Injection was patched, which could be exploited under certain conditions; * Fix: ShortPixel Image Optimizer handles offloading when both plugins are used with WP Offload Media.

  3. Enable Media Replace 4.1.2

    • Release date: April 24, 2023 * Tweak: Reduced the wait time before redirecting to the media edit page to half (5s); * Fix: If an item is not offloaded, no attempt is made to update its data; * Fix: Removed some double spaces from the plugin strings (thanks to @Presskopp).

  4. Enable Media Replace 4.1.1

    • Release date: April 13, 2023 * Tweak: Added a filter to reduce or remove the wait time before redirecting to the media edit page; * Fix: Replacement works again on multisite setups where the plugin reported the path outside the uploads folder; * Fix: In some cases, replacement didn’t work when imag…

  5. Enable Media Replace 4.1.0

    • Release date: March 28, 2023 * New: Integration with WP Offload Media; items that are offloaded can now be replaced correctly; * New: Switch to a Replacer module that improves the code and makes it more robust; * New: Adding an intermediate confirmation page to solve possible redirection issues; *…

  6. Enable Media Replace 4.0.3

    • Release date: February 21, 2023 * Fix: background removal notification is no longer displayed when this feature is disabled with the filter; * Compat: improved compatibility with PHP 8.1 and 8.2 * Tweak: updated the banners on the replace page.

  7. Enable Media Replace 4.0.2

    • Release date: January 13, 2023 * Fix: patched a security vulnerability that could allow loading an unauthorized file during the replace operation; * Fix: finish the replace operation even if the tmp file cannot be removed due to file permissions issues; * Fix: when replacing a scaled file with a no…

20223 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 4.0.1

    • Release date: November 23, 2022 * Fix: files are now replaced correctly in environments running on Windows/IIC servers; * Fix: the mime type is now correctly detected, so that a warning is no longer displayed when replacing PDFs; * Fix: the plugin no longer tries to load its code for post IDs that…

  2. Enable Media Replace 4.0.0

    • Release date: September 5th, 2022 * New: added the functionality to remove the background for any image; * Fix: images added to the new block-style widgets were not replaced; * Fix: the original file was not removed after replacement if a multilingual plugin was installed; * Fix: additional checks…

  3. Enable Media Replace 3.6.3

    • Release date: November 25th, 2021 * Fix: the shortcode file-modified works again for non-privileged visitors as well; * Compat: if other plugins don’t properly use WP Hooks, don’t return errors; * Tweak: updated banners list from the EMR screen.

20214 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.6.2

    • Release date: November 8th, 2021 * Fix: there was an issue in file.php with checking mime-type, resulting in weird mime-type values in certain cases (thanks @dougaxe1 for the PR); * Fix: if target mime type returns empty, don’t store that; * Tweak: removed old notification about SPIO.

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.6.1

    • Release date: October 27th, 2021 * Fix: there was a broken image in one of the plugin notices; * Fix: added a check for the function mime_content_type, which doesn’t seem to always be available on various hosts; * Fix: the plugin checks if the current user has rights to install/activate plugins and…

  3. Enable Media Replace 3.6.0

    • Release date: October 11th, 2021 * New: Constant EMR_CAPABILITY can define extra user roles to allow and deny replacements; * New: Replacing an usual image with an SVG file will just replace all thumbnails by the main file; * New: Also replaces caption when set in Exif data (when replacing with upd…

  4. Enable Media Replace 3.5.0

    • Release date: October 29th 2020 * New: EMR now replaces across all meta tables; * New: the plugin remembers last used settings; * New: integration with the LiteSpeed cache plugin and webserver; * Tweak: manual Logging will no longer work if user is not logged as administrator; * Tweak: added post_i…

20208 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.4.2

    • Release date: August 17th 2020 * New – Also display files size in the replacement windows; * Fix – Replacing image with pdf file would cause noticesi; * Fix – Compensation for faulty WordPress installation that return empty error string on wp_upload_dir and falsely return relative paths and urls on…

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.4.1

    • Release date: June 18th 2020 * Fix – PHP Error when settings permissions failed.

  3. Enable Media Replace 3.4.0

  4. Enable Media Replace 3.3.12

  5. Enable Media Replace 3.3.11

  6. Enable Media Replace 3.3.10

  7. Enable Media Replace 3.3.9

  8. Enable Media Replace 3.3.8

201910 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.3.7

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.3.6

  3. Enable Media Replace 3.3.5

  4. Enable Media Replace 3.3.4

  5. Enable Media Replace 3.3.3

  6. Enable Media Replace 3.3.2

  7. Enable Media Replace 3.3.1

  8. Enable Media Replace 3.3.0

  9. Enable Media Replace 3.2.9

  10. Enable Media Replace 3.2.8

20188 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.2.7

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.2.6

  3. Enable Media Replace 3.2.5

  4. Enable Media Replace 3.2.4

  5. Enable Media Replace 3.2.3

  6. Enable Media Replace 3.2.2

  7. Enable Media Replace 3.2.1

  8. Enable Media Replace 3.2

20173 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.1.1

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.1

  3. Enable Media Replace 3.0.6

20162 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.0.5

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.0.4

20152 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.0.3

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.0.2

20145 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 3.0.1

  2. Enable Media Replace 3.0

  3. Enable Media Replace 2.9.6

  4. Enable Media Replace 2.9.5

  5. Enable Media Replace 2.9.4

20136 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 2.9.3

  2. Enable Media Replace 2.9.2

  3. Enable Media Replace 2.9.1

  4. Enable Media Replace 2.9

  5. Enable Media Replace 2.8.2

  6. Enable Media Replace 2.8.1

20122 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 2.8

  2. Enable Media Replace 2.7

20116 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 2.6

  2. Enable Media Replace 2.5.2

  3. Enable Media Replace 2.5.1

  4. Enable Media Replace 2.5

  5. Enable Media Replace 2.4.1

  6. Enable Media Replace 2.4

20107 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 2.3

  2. Enable Media Replace 2.2

  3. Enable Media Replace 2.1

  4. Enable Media Replace 2.0.1

  5. Enable Media Replace 2.0

  6. Enable Media Replace 1.4.1

  7. Enable Media Replace 1.4

20094 releases

  1. Enable Media Replace 1.3

  2. Enable Media Replace 1.2

  3. Enable Media Replace 1.1

  4. Enable Media Replace 1.0

Questions about Enable Media Replace’s releases

What is the latest version of Enable Media Replace?

4.2.3, released on Oct 26, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Enable Media Replace updated?

7 releases in the last year, about one every 54 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from June 2009.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Enable Media Replace’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.