Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard <= 1.9.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Bulk Plugin/Theme Archival

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-14399
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 16, 2025
Last Updated December 17, 2025
Researcher bosz
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, 1.9.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the download_plugin_bulk and download_theme_bulk functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to archive all the sites plugins and themes and place them in the `wp-content/uploads/` directory via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug download-plugins-dashboard (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.6
Patched Version
  • 1.9.7
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