CVE-2025-8009

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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51ee45f8-9978-48ec-8f87-229dc82938a8?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3333048/

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS