CVE-2026-97338

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.70 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the [wpdm_edit_profile] shortcode to be present on a front-end page accessible to Subscriber-level users, who can then submit a multiply entity-encoded payload via the display name field to bypass sanitization.

CVSS 3.1

6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-79

Published

2026-10-02

Modified

2026-10-03

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/Admin/views/stats/history.php#L232
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/Admin/views/stats/history.php#L979
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/User/EditProfile.php#L57
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/__/__.php#L224
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.70/src/__/__.php#L300

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