Download After Email 2.1.5 - 2.1.6 - Unauthorized Repeated Form Submissions
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.1.7
- Affected Plugin
- Download After Email – Subscribe & Download Form Plugin
- Affected Version
2.1.5 – 2.1.6- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CVE
CVE-2025-54743
At a glance
CVE-2025-54743 is a medium-severity Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Download After Email WordPress plugin, affecting versions 2.1.5 – 2.1.6. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.1.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2025, reported by Marcin 'maskopatol' Nowak.
Vulnerability Overview
The Download After Email – Subscribe & Download Form Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized repeated form submission in versions 2.1.5 to 2.1.6. This is due to the plugin not properly limiting the number of requests a user can make. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to initiate a download request several times.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Reaching this weakness in Download After Email 2.1.5 – 2.1.6 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Uncontrolled resource consumption means a request can make the server do an amount of work it never bounds, because the size or repetition of the job is taken from the request rather than capped by the code.
A single caller can hold PHP workers, database connections or disk open long enough to slow the site for everyone, without needing any account or any other flaw. For Download After Email the fix is 2.1.7: builds 2.1.5 – 2.1.6 are affected, anything from 2.1.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.1.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Download After Email: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Download After Email 2.1.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Download After Email – Subscribe & Download Form Plugin
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