Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard <= 1.9.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Bulk Plugin/Theme Archival
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.9.7
- Affected Plugin
- Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard
- Affected Version
<= 1.9.6- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2025-14399
At a glance
CVE-2025-14399 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.9.6. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.9.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by bosz.
Vulnerability Overview
The Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the download_plugin_bulk and download_theme_bulk functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to archive all the sites plugins and themes and place them in the `wp-content/uploads/` directory via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard <= 1.9.6 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard the fix is 1.9.7: builds <= 1.9.6 are affected, anything from 1.9.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.9.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard 1.9.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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