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CVE-2024-10092: Download Monitor <= 5.0.12 - Missing Authorization to API Key Manipulation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Download Monitor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_handle_api_key_actions function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to revoke existing API keys and generate new ones.

Affected products

• wpchill Download Monitor: through 5.0.12

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-monitor/tags/5.0.12/src/KeyGeneration/class-dlm-key-generation.php#L299
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3173614/download-monitor/trunk/src/KeyGeneration/class-dlm-key-generation.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f1e50d8c-e61c-4e94-b5e8-b24832dc24b6?source=cve

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