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Download Monitor <= 4.4.4 — Admin+ SQL Injection via orderby parameter

CVE-2021-24786Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <4.4.5Update to 4.4.5 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
High7.2
CVSS
7.2
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Download Monitor download-monitor

  1. Affected< 4.4.5
  2. Patched in4.4.5

Update to 4.4.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 4.4.5. Version 4.4.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Download Monitor.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.4.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Download Monitor to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to bl4derunner.

The Download Monitor WordPress plugin before 4.4.5 does not properly validate and escape the "orderby" GET parameter before using it in a SQL statement when viewing the logs, leading to an SQL Injection issue

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Low2.7Missing Authorization
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Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.3.3Update to 5.3.4
CVE-2026-112207
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.3.3Update to 5.3.4
CVE-2026-110375
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Cross-Origin postMessage to Admin Editor
≤5.2.10Update to 5.2.11
CVE-2026-100182
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.2.5Update to 5.2.6
CVE-2026-16608

Same weakness (SQL Injection)

All SQL Injection
Other SQL Injection vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.2

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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