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CVE-2025-14399: Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard <= 1.9.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Bulk Plugin/Theme Archival

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-17 · updated 2026-09-28
• 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, 1.9.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the download_plugin_bulk and download_theme_bulk functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to archive all the sites plugins and themes and place them in the `wp-content/uploads/` directory via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• wpcodefactory Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard: through 1.9.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3417484/download-plugins-dashboard
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/845b6bcf-004b-4b92-88d7-3d331fa58c11?source=cve

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