CVE-2018-5212

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2018-5212 · Published 04/01/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-5212 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting simple download monitor (simple download monitor project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.0%, higher than 63.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simple download monitor simple_download_monitor_project	`= 3.5.4`	No fix yet

Description

The Simple Download Monitor plugin before 3.5.4 for WordPress has XSS via the sdm_upload_thumbnail (aka File Thumbnail) parameter in an edit action to wp-admin/post.php.

References

Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor commit 8ab8b91 · Patch
Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor · Exploit
d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report · Exploit
wordpress.org/support/topic/stored-xss-bug-at-the-latest-version-of-simple-download-monitor · Broken Link

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