Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard <= 1.8.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-7501
CVSS Medium (4.2)
Publicly Published August 15, 2024
Last Updated August 16, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
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, 1.8.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the download_theme() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary themes from the website via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. In versions prior to 1.8.6 it was possible to download the entire sites files.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug download-plugins-dashboard (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.7
Patched Version
  • 1.8.8
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