CVE-2026-5357
Description
The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'sid' parameter of the 'wpdm_members' shortcode in versions up to and including 3.3.52. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the user-supplied 'sid' shortcode attribute. The sid parameter is extracted without sanitization in the members() function and stored via update_post_meta(), then echoed directly into an HTML id attribute in the members.php template without applying esc_attr(). 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 the injected page.
Affected products
1- Range: <=3.3.52
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.51/src/User/User.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/tags/3.3.51/src/User/views/members.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/trunk/src/User/User.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/trunk/src/User/views/members.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/27fc81b0-c03a-4de7-bc38-791401d1685bnvd
News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 6, 2026 to April 12, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Apr 16, 2026