Microsoft Azure Storage for WordPress

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1. ★★★★★ masamis

   12mo ago

   for hosting wordpress site , this plugin must be required.

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2. ★★★★★ farmergeek

   2.5y ago

   Using, docker and this plugin, you can get VM performant speeds on WordPress in azure. We have used it successfully in many WordPress sites hosted on app services. It integrates very nicely with a cdn/frontdoor as well.

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3. ★★★★★ maxizamorano

   4.9y ago

   It works excellent, it is the only plugin there is, I am glad that it has no problems.

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4. ★★★★★ marverix

   5.5y ago

   There are 5 pages of reported issues for this plugin. Most of them without any answer. Uploading a file while enabled “Auto remove local files” shows infinity loading. Too bad. Azure is a great AWS S3 alternative. Without any maintained plugin for WordPress. Shame.

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5. ★★★★★ mtnats

   6.2y ago

   respect, i’m happy! )

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6. ★★★★★ Daniel Hendricks

   6.5y ago

   Another quality plugin from the folks at 10up. I had used the S3 offloader from Delicious Brains for other projects, but the current client is using Azure. This plugin is about as one-click easy as it gets, and it works well.

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7. ★★★★★ lgobs

   6.5y ago

   This is nice plugin with easy setup (if you know what you are doing). If you setup Azure Storage Container with a CNAME, you will get lovely external storage for you uploads, where URLs will show as something else or so which is perfect solution for me.

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8. ★★★★★ lonevvolf

   6.7y ago

   It claims that files are uploaded, but they do not get saved in Azure Storage.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2025-10-29 Version 4.5.2 Security: Add capability check when replacing media to prevent privilege escalation by authenticated users (props @peterwilsoncc , @dkotter via GHSA-pwm5-mwxv-fjrh , CVE-2025-10749 ) Security: Bump minimatch from 4.0.7 t 4.5.2
2. 2024-07-17 Version 4.5.1 Fixed: Fix path issue that duplicates the container name in URL paths (props @hugosolar , @cally423 , @Besdima , @ms2oo8 , @BCornelissen , @dkotter via #246 ). 4.5.1
3. 2024-07-15 Version 4.5.0 Added: Feature to replace images at the blob storage level (props @hugosolar , @rickalee , @dkotter via #230 ). Added: Constant for MICROSOFT_AZURE_OVERRIDE_CONTAINER_PATH (props @rickalee , @engrshakirali , @hugosolar v 4.5.0
4. 2024-05-06 Version 4.4.2 Note that this release bumps the minimum WordPress version from 5.7 to 6.3. Added: New feature to replace PDF files at the blob storage level (props @hugosolar , @rickalee via #220 ). Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up t 4.4.2
5. 2024-01-08 Version 4.4.1 Added: Support for the WordPress.org plugin preview (props @dkotter , @jeffpaul via #212 ). Changed: Bump WordPress version “tested up to” 6.4 (props @QAharshalkadu , @jeffpaul via #208 , #209 ). Changed: Align our PHP m 4.4.1

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.4 Microsoft Azure Storage for WordPress <= 4.5.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Media Deletion ↗
   2025-10-23 CVE-2025-10749 Missing Authorization Affects <= 4.5.1 Patched in 4.5.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

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