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Description

The Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘name’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3 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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-28 | Published 2025-08-05 | Updated 2025-08-05 | Assigner Wordfence




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

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Timeline

2025-08-04:Disclosed

Credits

Gilang Asra Bilhadi finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-8a28-45b9-a9dc-fd7257a83a84?source=cve

wordpress.org/plugins/download-counter/

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338968

cve.org (CVE-2025-8294)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-8294)

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