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CVE-2026-97338: Download Manager <= 3.3.70 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Display Name

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2026-10-02 · updated 2026-10-03
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.70 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 requires the [wpdm_edit_profile] shortcode to be present on a front-end page accessible to Subscriber-level users, who can then submit a multiply entity-encoded payload via the display name field to bypass sanitization.

Affected products

• codename065 Download Manager: through 3.3.70

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/Admin/views/stats/history.php#L232
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/Admin/views/stats/history.php#L979
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/User/EditProfile.php#L57
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/__/__.php#L224
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/__/__.php#L300
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3715131%40download-manager&new=3715131%40download-manager
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e04b75d4-9bf5-4b26-ac3a-88a10d200c50?source=cve

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