The wp-downloadmanager WordPress plugin, in version 1.68.11 (also affecting the 6.9.4 release line), allows an admin-privileged user (current_user_can('manage_downloads')) to upload arbitrary files via download-add.php with no extension or MIME-type validation of any kind - no wp_check_filetype_and_ext, no validate_file, and no extension blocklist exist anywhere in the upload handler.
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Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000
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| Description | The wp-downloadmanager WordPress plugin, in version 1.68.11 (also affecting the 6.9.4 release line), allows an admin-privileged user (current_user_can('manage_downloads')) to upload arbitrary files via download-add.php with no extension or MIME-type validation of any kind - no wp_check_filetype_and_ext(), no validate_file(), and no extension blocklist exist anywhere in the upload handler. The destination path is additionally built by concatenating the raw, unsanitized $_POST['file_upload_to'] value with no traversal check (no ../ filtering, no basename()/realpath() applied). Since the base download path is required to live under WP_CONTENT_DIR (a web-accessible location), an uploaded PHP file lands in a web-servable path and can be directly executed, resulting in remote code execution. The plugin's own later changelog confirms these protections were absent in this version: v1.69 added file-type validation via wp_check_filetype_and_ext(), and v1.69.1 added directory-traversal protection - neither existed in 1.68.11. | The wp-downloadmanager WordPress plugin, in version 1.68.11 (also affecting the 6.9.4 release line), allows an admin-privileged user (current_user_can('manage_downloads')) to upload arbitrary files via download-add.php with no extension or MIME-type validation of any kind - no wp_check_filetype_and_ext, no validate_file, and no extension blocklist exist anywhere in the upload handler. |
Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000
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| Title | wp-downloadmanager: Unrestricted File Upload via Missing Extension/MIME Validation and Path Traversal | wp-downloadmanager - Unrestricted File Upload via Missing Extension/MIME Validation and Path Traversal |
Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:45:00 +0000
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Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000
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| Description | The wp-downloadmanager WordPress plugin, in version 1.68.11 (also affecting the 6.9.4 release line), allows an admin-privileged user (current_user_can('manage_downloads')) to upload arbitrary files via download-add.php with no extension or MIME-type validation of any kind - no wp_check_filetype_and_ext(), no validate_file(), and no extension blocklist exist anywhere in the upload handler. The destination path is additionally built by concatenating the raw, unsanitized $_POST['file_upload_to'] value with no traversal check (no ../ filtering, no basename()/realpath() applied). Since the base download path is required to live under WP_CONTENT_DIR (a web-accessible location), an uploaded PHP file lands in a web-servable path and can be directly executed, resulting in remote code execution. The plugin's own later changelog confirms these protections were absent in this version: v1.69 added file-type validation via wp_check_filetype_and_ext(), and v1.69.1 added directory-traversal protection - neither existed in 1.68.11. | |
| Title | wp-downloadmanager: Unrestricted File Upload via Missing Extension/MIME Validation and Path Traversal | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-434 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: TuranSec
Published: 2026-08-05T11:27:06.850Z
Updated: 2026-08-10T11:43:27.237Z
Reserved: 2026-08-05T11:26:38.495Z
Link: CVE-2026-18933
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2026-08-05T12:30:47.904Z
NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-05T12:18:56.553
Modified: 2026-08-10T12:17:14.430
Link: CVE-2026-18933
Redhat
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