CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-12961
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-18
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Download Panel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized settings modification due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_save_settings' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.3. This is due to the absence of any capability verification in the `dlpn_save_settings()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to arbitrarily modify plugin settings including display text, download links, button colors, and other visual customizations.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-panel/tags/1.3.3/plugin.php#L50 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-panel/tags/1.3.3/plugin.php#L51 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1a1df7e-1a57-45b3-a4b3-cb3218782ad9?source=cve www.wordfence.com