Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8294

Description

The Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘name’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Affected products

WordPress/Download Counterreferences2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=1.3
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-counter

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338968nvd
wordpress.org/plugins/download-counter/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fcf7936-8a28-45b9-a9dc-fd7257a83a84nvd

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