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CVE-2024-7501: Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard <= 1.8.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the download_theme() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary themes from the website via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. In versions prior to 1.8.6 it was possible to download the entire sites files.

Affected products

• wpcodefactory Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard: through 1.8.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3136231/download-plugins-dashboard/tags/1.8.8/includes/class-alg-download-plugins-core.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dcbfcaeb-2635-4b11-b426-ee04345d5f36?source=cve

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