Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-1524

W3Eden Download Manager ≤ 3.2.71

Public PoC
Published
30 May 2023
Modified
21 March 2025
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0074 51th percentile
Risk Priority 51 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-1524 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in W3Eden Download Manager. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 49% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

The Download Manager WordPress plugin before 3.2.71 does not adequately validate passwords for password-protected files. Upon validation, a master key is generated and exposed to the user, which may be used to download any password-protected file on the server, allowing…

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a user to download any file with the knowledge of any one file's password.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

w3eden
download manager
≤ 3.2.71

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References