CVE-2026-14343

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Description

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'note_before' and 'note_after' Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.61 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Because wp_kses_post filters post content on save for users without unfiltered_html, only kses-allowed tag and attribute payloads that survive save-time filtering will reach the unescaped sink; however, the sink itself remains unsafe and such payloads can still execute in the browser when a user renders the shortcode.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/74cd34be-008c-4ff3-ae3c-417cfd2fee9b?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3594267%40download-manager&new=3594267%40download-manager

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.61/src/User/views/reg-form.php#L78

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.61/src/User/views/reg-form.php#L69

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.61/src/User/Register.php#L32

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.61/src/User/Register.php#L123

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-09

Updated: 2026-07-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00201