CVE-2025-8009 (GCVE-0-2025-8009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-24 07:22 – Updated: 2025-07-24 13:16
VLAI?
Title
Security Ninja – Secure Firewall & Secure Malware Scanner - 5.201 - 5.242 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-36 - Absolute Path Traversal
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cleverplugins Security Ninja – WordPress Security Plugin & Firewall Affected: 5.201 , ≤ 5.242 (semver)
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Credits
Jonas Benjamin Friedli
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