CVE-2022-2981

published 2022-10-10

CVE-2022-2981: The Download Monitor WordPress plugin before 4.5.98 does not ensure that files to be downloaded are inside the blog folders, and not sensitive, allowing high…

Priority P4 24 medium 4.9 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR H UI N S U C H I N A N

The Download Monitor WordPress plugin before 4.5.98 does not ensure that files to be downloaded are inside the blog folders, and not sensitive, allowing high privilege users such as admin to download the wp-config.php or /etc/passwd even in an hardened environment or multisite setup.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
wpchill	download_monitor	< 4.5.98	4.5.98

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