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CVE-2025-12177VulnerabilityPublished

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a hardcoded Cron key used in the

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-12177· Medium 5.3

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.3 Medium.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026, 18:52 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.3Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Affects
all up to 3.3.30
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 8 Nov 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 4 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, consider restricting access to the cron job endpoints or monitoring for unauthorized requests to these functions.

Description

The Download Manager plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability in all versions up to and including 3.3.30 where a hardcoded Cron key allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger certain cron jobs. These jobs include deleteExpired() and clearTempDataCPCron(), which can delete expired posts and clear cache data.

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