# CVE-2024-12875: Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.3.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Download

> Authenticated administrators can exploit a directory traversal flaw to read arbitrary files on the server, potentially exposing sensitive information.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hf9w-j94g-6x4x

## What is CVE-2024-12875?

CVE-2024-12875 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 21 Dec 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.2 via the file download functionality. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory), CWE-73 (External Control of File Name or Path)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12875?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-12875?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12875 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12875 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12875 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads

- [CVE-2023-30869](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-30869/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads Plugin 3.1-3.1.1.4.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-3600](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3600/): Easy Digital Downloads < 3.1.0.2 - Unauthenticated CSV Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2015-9324](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-9324/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-5057](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5057/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.2.12 - SQL Injection vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2022-2439](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2439/): Deserialization in Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12875 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12875 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 21 Dec 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12875 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12875/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12875/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12875
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12875
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12875

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12875/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.