CVE-2025-7518

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Description

The RSFirewall! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.42 via the get_local_filename() function. 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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fd7b0eef-3b8e-4272-bbd7-ad52088d0835?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3306173%40rsfirewall&new=3306173%40rsfirewall&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-12

Updated: 2025-07-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00037