PT-2025-31914 · WordPress · Download Counter For Wordpress

Gilang · Published 2025-08-05 · Updated 2025-08-05 · CVE-2025-8294

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Download Counter for WordPress versions prior to 1.4

Description The Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the name parameter. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping allow authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations Update to Download Counter for WordPress version 1.4 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-8294

Affected Products

Download Counter For Wordpress

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8294 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/29192 · Telegram Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-counter/#developers · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/130886 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1952666371059335250 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1952637806599197018 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fcf7936-8a28-45b9-a9dc-fd7257a83a84?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338968 · Note