Simple Download Counter, CVE-2025-1730

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-1730
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Download Counter
Application: Simple Download Counter
Published on: Mar 01, 2025
Research Description: The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 via the 'simple_download_counter_download_handler'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including any local file on the server, such as wp-config.php or /etc/passwd.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.1.
Status: vulnerable