WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Download Manager < 3.3.53 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

Description

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'sid' parameter of the 'wpdm_members' shortcode in versions up to and including 3.3.52. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the user-supplied 'sid' shortcode attribute. The sid parameter is extracted without sanitization in the members() function and stored via update_post_meta(), then echoed directly into an HTML id attribute in the members.php template without applying esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.3.53

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
zaim
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-04-08 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-04-08 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-04-09 (about 1 month ago)

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