CVE-2024-8699: Urbanbase Z-Downloads

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Z-Downloads WordPress plugin before 1.11.5 does not properly validate files uploaded, allowing high privilege users such as admin to upload arbitrary files on the server even when they should not be allowed to (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

• Urbanbase Z-Downloads: before 1.11.5 (fixed in 1.11.5)

Published 2025-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.