CVE-2024-10399: Download Monitor <= 5.0.13 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-10-30 · 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_search_users function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.13. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to obtain usernames and emails of site users.

Affected products

wpchill Download Monitor: through 5.0.13

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-monitor/tags/5.0.13/src/KeyGeneration/class-dlm-key-generation.php#L266
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3178099/download-monitor/trunk/src/KeyGeneration/class-dlm-key-generation.php?contextall=1
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/03b88862-012a-4dc6-9abb-99dc0d9408fd?source=cve

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