CVE-2024-11740

HIGH EXPLOITED NUCLEI

WordPress <3.3.03 - RCE

Title source: llm

Description

The The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.03. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Nuclei Templates (1)

Download Manager < 3.3.04 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

HIGHVERIFIEDby iamnoooob,rootxharsh,pdresearch

References (3)

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.02/src/Package/Hooks.php#L42

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.02/src/Package/views/shortcode-iframe.php#L203

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4a7be578-5883-4cd3-963d-bf81c3af2003?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3

EPSS 0.1062

EPSS Percentile 93.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2025-09-11

CWE

CWE-94

Status published

Products (2)

codename065/Download Manager < 3.3.03

w3eden/download_manager < 3.3.04

Published Dec 19, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026