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CVE-2025-8009
Security Ninja – Secure Firewall & Secure Malware Scanner - 5.201 - 5.242 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read
Medium4.9EPSS 0.72%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.72% · top 46% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
Affected products
cleverplugins · Security Ninja – WordPress Security Plugin & Firewall
- affected 5.201 – ≤ 5.242
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51ee45f8-9978-48ec-8f87-229dc82938a8?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/security-ninja/trunk/modules/core-scanner/core-scanner.php#L33 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/security-ninja/trunk/modules/core-scanner/core-scanner.php#L186 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3333048/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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