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Commonly,

• To allow your users, subscribers, etc.  to upload medias (images, videos, documents, sounds) and insert them in their posts/pages for share,
• Or, to let some plugins work properly

you need to set permissions for some folders (ex. “UPLOADS” folder commonly in your “wp-content” folder), to a 777 permission, which means that you allow yourself and the whole world to read, write and execute anything in these folders and usually its subfolders. This opens a vulnerability hole to some malicious users to inject and execute scripts in this directory and gain access of the back office resources of your website which can be very dangerous.

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• Connect to Admin Interface (usually: yourwpwebsite/wp-admin/)
• Enter your login and password.
• Click on pages/posts (accordingly to your needs).
• Click on Add new if you want to add a new page/post or Click on Edit when it appears under the page/post you want to change.
• In front of “Upload/Insert” there is 4 symbols and the last one is like a sun/star. Click on it to insert any type of media as a link. You can choose one of the other symbols if you want to add an image, a movie or an audio file directly in the page/post.
• In the dialog box click on “select the files” to upload the files that will be shown like a link. If it’s not active or you are facing problems clicking on or working with the flash uploader you can click on the link “browser uploader” and click on “browse” to select your file then on upload to upload it.
• When it’s done, the name of the successfully uploaded file will be written and a dialog box appears under it. (you may need to click on show to see the dialog box)
• In the dialog box, Add the title and the caption that will be seen on the page then click on “insert …” in the bottom of the dialog box.
• The uploaded file will stay in the media library so you can repoint to the file from anywhere in the website using the “chain” icon in the dialog box when you edit, or add new post or page.

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