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CVE-2022-1985: Download Manager <= 3.2.42 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Download Manager Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to reflected Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including 3.2.42. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'frameid' parameter found in the ~/src/Package/views/shortcode-iframe.php file.

Affected products

• codename065 Download Manager: through 3.2.42

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2736071%40download-manager&new=2736071%40download-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-manager/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/06/security-vulnerability-download-manager-plugin/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79fcf18e-39f7-42f2-90e4-3a5bac3382e0?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1985
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2736071%40download-manager&new=2736071%40download-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-manager/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/06/security-vulnerability-download-manager-plugin/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79fcf18e-39f7-42f2-90e4-3a5bac3382e0?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1985

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