CVE-2025-8009
Security Ninja – Secure Firewall & Secure Malware Scanner - 5.201 - 5.242 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.9 Medium
- Published
- Jul 24, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 24, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 21, 2025
Description
The Security Ninja – WordPress Security Plugin & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 5.242 via the 'get_file_source' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to extract sensitive data, including the contents of any file on the server.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.9 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Security Ninja – WordPress Security Plugin & Firewallcleverplugins |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51ee45f8-9978-48ec-8f87-229dc82938a8?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/security-ninja/trunk/modules/core-scanner/core-scanner.php#L33
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/security-ninja/trunk/modules/core-scanner/core-scanner.php#L186
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3333048/
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