CVE-2022-2222: Wpchill Download Monitor

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Download Monitor WordPress plugin before 4.5.91 does not ensure that files to be downloaded are inside the blog folders, and not sensitive, allowing high privilege users such as admin to download the wp-config.php or /etc/passwd even in an hardened environment or multisite setup.

Affected products

• Wpchill Download Monitor: before 4.5.91 (fixed in 4.5.91)

Published 2022-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.