CVE-2022-2436: w3eden Download Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'file[package_dir]' parameter in versions up to, and including 3.2.49. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor privileges and above to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize the data and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present. It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.

Affected products

• w3eden Download Manager: before 3.2.50 (fixed in 3.2.50)

Published 2022-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.