WP-DownloadManager Plugin up to 1.68.10 on WordPress absolute path traversal

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A vulnerability has been found in WP-DownloadManager Plugin up to 1.68.10 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to absolute path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-4799. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in WP-DownloadManager Plugin up to 1.68.10 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a absolute path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-36. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WP-DownloadManager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to lack of restriction on the directory a file can be deleted from in all versions up to, and including, 1.68.10. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php). This vulnerability can be paired with CVE-2025-4798 to delete any file within the WordPress root directory.

The weakness was disclosed by Jamshed Yergashvoyev. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-4799 since 05/15/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-18083). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• WP-DownloadManager Plugin

Version

• 1.68.0
• 1.68.1
• 1.68.2
• 1.68.3
• 1.68.4
• 1.68.5
• 1.68.6
• 1.68.7
• 1.68.8
• 1.68.9
• 1.68.10

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