{"id":"CVE-2024-8284","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-8284","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:10:41.412Z","title":"The Download Manager WordPress plugin before 3.2.99 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed","description":"The Download Manager WordPress plugin before 3.2.99 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed","published":"2025-05-15T20:15:58.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:22:17.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["w3eden/download manager"],"epss":{"score":0.00362,"percentile":0.29725,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/93e38b8c-8a2e-4264-b520-ebdbe995d61e/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8284","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}