CVE-2022-4764: Simple File Downloader Project Simple File Downloader

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Simple File Downloader WordPress plugin through 1.0.4 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

• Simple File Downloader Project Simple File Downloader: up to and including 1.0.4

Published 2023-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.