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CVE-2024-1766: Download Manager <= 3.2.86 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Self-Based Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a user's Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.86 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This vulnerability requires social engineering to successfully exploit, and the impact would be very limited due to the attacker requiring a user to login as the user with the injected payload for execution.

Affected products

• codename065 Download Manager: before 3.2.87 — fixed in 3.2.87

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: codename065 Download Manager 3.2.87. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/trunk/src/User/views/dashboard/edit-profile.php#L16
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9774c999-acb6-4c5f-ad6c-10979660b164?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/trunk/src/User/views/dashboard/edit-profile.php#L16
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9774c999-acb6-4c5f-ad6c-10979660b164?source=cve

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