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CVE-2018-5212
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-01-04 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
The Simple Download Monitor plugin before 3.5.4 for WordPress has XSS via the sdm_upload_thumbnail (aka File Thumbnail) parameter in an edit action to wp-admin/post.php.
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor/commit/8ab8b9166bc87feba26a1573cf595af48eff7805
- https://github.com/Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor/issues/27
- https://github.com/d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report/blob/master/simple-download-monitor.md
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stored-xss-bug-at-the-latest-version-of-simple-download-monitor/
- https://github.com/Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor/commit/8ab8b9166bc87feba26a1573cf595af48eff7805
- https://github.com/Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor/issues/27
- https://github.com/d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report/blob/master/simple-download-monitor.md
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stored-xss-bug-at-the-latest-version-of-simple-download-monitor/
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