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CVE-2025-12961: Download Panel <= 1.3.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Modification

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2025-11-18 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Download Panel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized settings modification due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_save_settings' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.3. This is due to the absence of any capability verification in the `dlpn_save_settings()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to arbitrarily modify plugin settings including display text, download links, button colors, and other visual customizations.

Affected products

• arkadiykilesso Download Panel (Biggiko Team): through 1.3.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-panel/tags/1.3.3/plugin.php#L50
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-panel/tags/1.3.3/plugin.php#L51
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1a1df7e-1a57-45b3-a4b3-cb3218782ad9?source=cve

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