Easy Digital Downloads: A security weakness
Easy Digital Downloads is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Easy Digital Downloads
- Plugin slug
easy-digital-downloads- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 17, 2024
This CVE was published Dec 17, 2024 and is one of 66 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Easy Digital Downloads to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Authorization in versions 3.1 through 3.3.4. This is due to a lack of sufficient validation checks within the 'verify_guest_email' function to ensure the requesting user is the intended recipient of the purchase receipt. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass intended security restrictions and view the receipts of other users, which contains a link to download paid content. Successful exploitation requires knowledge of another customers email address as well as the file ID of the content they purchased.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N