Download Monitor <= 5.0.13 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-10399
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 29, 2024
Last Updated October 30, 2024
Researcher Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)
Description

The Download Monitor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_search_users function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.13. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to obtain usernames and emails of site users.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug download-monitor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.13
Patched Version
  • 5.0.14
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