CVE-2026-120658

Description

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'file[additional_previews][]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The wpdm_sanitize_array() function strips HTML tags via wp_kses but leaves bare single quotes intact and calls stripslashes_deep() which defeats WordPress magic quotes protection, allowing a single-quote-based attribute breakout payload to be stored verbatim and later rendered without escaping.

Severity scores

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• 6.4CVSS 3.1, Mediumfrom the CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Historical context and remediation

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Affected products

Timeline

1. 2 Nov 2026 Vendor Notified
2. 12 Nov 2026 Disclosed
3. 13 Nov 2026 Published

Weakness

• CWE-79

References

• www.wordfence.com
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org
• www.wpdownloadmanager.com