vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: download-manager: CVE-2025-1785: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 12, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.08 via the 'wpdm_newfile' action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to overwrite select file types outside of the originally intended directory, which may cause a denial of service.

Solution

download-manager-plugin-cve-2025-1785
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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