CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-9829

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-10-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

The Download Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability checks on the 'dpwap_handle_download_user' and 'dpwap_handle_download_comment' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to download any comment, and download metadata for any user including user PII and sensitive information including username, email, hashed passwords and application passwords, session token information and more depending on set up and additional plugins installed.

Affected configurations

• metagauss download plugin (< 2.2.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References