Role Based Access Management for Media files (attachments).
As of April 2026, Role Based Access Manager: Media Protector is a WordPress media plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.4+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Safe SVG.
Role Base Access Manager: Media Protector
WordPress plugin to assign access roles to individual files.
This simple plugin allows administrators (anyone with access to the edit-post form for attachments/media) to set access based on roles.
The plugin provides a ‘Security’ meta-box on the right hand side where you can type in role names and select them (much like you add tags
to regular posts). Whenever a visitor wants to download or view a file or image from the uploads directory, his/her current roles are checked
against the configured roles.
This plugin tries to look for originals of resized and rescaled images by making a rough search in the meta data table. This allows you to
mark the original image of a blog entry for specific access and have all thumbnails and other deriv…
| WordPress | 5.4+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
Update the ‘Tested-to’ value. Added support for LiteSpeed servers, which read the .htaccess file as well.
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