Download Monitor <= 4.5.9 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Download

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
CVE CVE-2022-2222
CVSS Medium (4.9)
Publicly Published June 27, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Thiago Martins, Jorge Buzeti, Leandro Inacio, Lucas de Souza, Matheus Oliveira, Filipe Baptistella, Leonardo Paiva, Jose Thomaz, Joao Maciel, Vinicius Pereira, Geovanni Campos, Hudson Nowak, Guilherme Acerbi
Description

The Download Monitor WordPress plugin before 4.5.91 does not ensure that files to be downloaded are inside the blog folders, and not sensitive, allowing high privilege users such as admin to download the wp-config.php or /etc/passwd even in an hardened environment or multisite setup.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug download-monitor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5.9
Patched Version
  • 4.5.91
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