PT-2024-39871 · Unknown · Download Plugin

Brian Sans-Souci + 3 · Published 2024-10-23 · Updated 2024-10-25 · CVE-2024-9829

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Download Plugin versions up to, and including, 2.2.0

Description The issue allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to download any comment and metadata for any user, including sensitive information such as username, email, hashed passwords, application passwords, and session token information. This is due to missing capability checks on the dpwap handle download user and dpwap handle download comment functions.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 2.2.0, consider disabling the dpwap handle download user and dpwap handle download comment functions until a patch is available to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive user data.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-9829

Affected Products

Download Plugin

References · 10

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3170600 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9829 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9829 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0891211-e4b3-4dcf-8ee0-e20abeb91640?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-plugin/trunk/download-plugin.php#L262 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/99525 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-plugin/trunk/download-plugin.php#L335 · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/8673 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1849046675966636283 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-plugin/trunk/download-plugin.php#L242 · Note