Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard, CVE-2024-7501
- CVE, Research URL
- Application
- Published on
- Aug 16, 2024
- Research 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.
- Affected versions
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max 1.8.8.
- Status
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vulnerable