Security advisory

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  "id": "42d9b97922789ecc6958abc1a08ef92daa4f02fb6cdb948391b49a374a2d6ee8",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5212",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-5212",
    "summary": "The Simple Download Monitor plugin before 3.5.4 for WordPress has XSS via the sdm_upload_thumbnail (aka File Thumbnail) parameter in an edit action to wp-admin/post.php.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-5212",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-5212",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-5212"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/arsenal21/simple-download-monitor",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "8ab8b9166bc87feba26a1573cf595af48eff7805"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "8ab8b9166bc87feba26a1573cf595af48eff7805"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5212.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:28.049448225Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stored-xss-bug-at-the-latest-version-of-simple-download-monitor/",
        "https://github.com/Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor/commit/8ab8b9166bc87feba26a1573cf595af48eff7805",
        "https://github.com/Arsenal21/simple-download-monitor/issues/27",
        "https://github.com/d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report/blob/master/simple-download-monitor.md"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:simple_download_monitor_project:simple_download_monitor:3.5.4:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "simple_download_monitor_project:simple_download_monitor",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "3.5.4"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "3.5.4"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "3.5.4"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "DESCRIPTION"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-5212",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381739,
  "published_at": "2018-01-04T18:29:00.247+00:00"
}