PT-2025-50302 · WordPress · Wordpress Simple Download Counter

Camilla Flocco · Published 2025-12-10 · Updated 2025-12-10 · CVE-2025-13677

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress Simple Download Counter plugin versions up to and including 2.2.2

Description The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress has a path traversal issue. Insufficient path validation in the simple download counter parse path() function allows authenticated attackers with Administrator-level access or higher to read arbitrary files on the server. These files may contain sensitive information, such as database credentials (wp-config.php) or system files. The vendor has disabled remote file downloads from arbitrary locations on multi-sites and provided a warning to site owners in the readme.txt file upon installation.

Recommendations Update to a version beyond 2.2.2.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-13677

Affected Products

Wordpress Simple Download Counter

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13677 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/tags/2.2.2/inc/functions-admin.php#L566 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b82a0f71-29d7-469a-8c69-5ab68d599cb9?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/39329 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3409876%40simple-download-counter&new=3409876%40simple-download-counter&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1998732752926159158 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/trunk/inc/functions-admin.php#L566 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1998646210572230727 · Twitter Post