vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: download-plugin: CVE-2024-9829: Missing Authorization

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 22, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

The Download Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability checks on the 'dpwap_handle_download_user' and 'dpwap_handle_download_comment' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to download any comment, and download metadata for any user including user PII and sensitive information including username, email, hashed passwords and application passwords, session token information and more depending on set up and additional plugins installed.

Solution

download-plugin-plugin-cve-2024-9829
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