Download After Email 2.1.5 - 2.1.6 - Unauthorized Repeated Form Submissions

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2025-54743
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 25, 2025
Last Updated September 30, 2025
Researcher Marcin 'maskopatol' Nowak
Description

The Download After Email – Subscribe & Download Form Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized repeated form submission in versions 2.1.5 to 2.1.6. This is due to the plugin not properly limiting the number of requests a user can make. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to initiate a download request several times.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug download-after-email (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 2.1.5 - 2.1.6
Patched Version
  • 2.1.7
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