Vulnerabilities and security researches forsimple-downloads-list simple-downloads-list

Nov 11, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-12583
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Downloads List
Application: Simple Downloads List
Date: Nov 08, 2025
Research Description: The Simple Downloads List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_neofix_sdl_edit' AJAX endpoint along with many others in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to alter many of the plugin's settings/downloads and inject malicious web scripts.
Affected versions: max 1.5.0.
Status: vulnerable

Jan 26, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-13594
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Downloads List
Application: Simple Downloads List
Date: Jan 24, 2025
Research Description: The Simple Downloads List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'category' attribute of the 'neofix_sdl' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Affected versions: max 1.4.3.
Status: vulnerable