Download Manager Plugin up to 3.2.54 on WordPress Setting path traversal

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Download Manager Plugin up to 3.2.54 on WordPress. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Setting Handler. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-2926. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Download Manager Plugin up to 3.2.54 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). This affects some unknown processing of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The Download Manager WordPress plugin before 3.2.55 does not validate one of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to list and read arbitrary files and folders outside of the blog directory

The weakness was published 09/26/2022. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-2926 since 08/22/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.2.55 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2022-35150). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Download Manager Plugin

Version

• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.2.7
• 3.2.8
• 3.2.9
• 3.2.10
• 3.2.11
• 3.2.12
• 3.2.13
• 3.2.14
• 3.2.15
• 3.2.16
• 3.2.17
• 3.2.18
• 3.2.19
• 3.2.20
• 3.2.21
• 3.2.22
• 3.2.23
• 3.2.24
• 3.2.25
• 3.2.26
• 3.2.27
• 3.2.28
• 3.2.29
• 3.2.30
• 3.2.31
• 3.2.32
• 3.2.33
• 3.2.34
• 3.2.35
• 3.2.36
• 3.2.37
• 3.2.38
• 3.2.39
• 3.2.40
• 3.2.41
• 3.2.42
• 3.2.43
• 3.2.44
• 3.2.45
• 3.2.46
• 3.2.47
• 3.2.48
• 3.2.49
• 3.2.50
• 3.2.51
• 3.2.52
• 3.2.53
• 3.2.54

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