Auto Amazon Links – Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin <= 5.4.3 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read
CVE-2025-11451Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.4.3No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- High7.5
- CVSS
- 7.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Auto Amazon Links – Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin amazon-auto-links
- Affected≤ 5.4.3
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.4.3. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Auto Amazon Links – Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Auto Amazon Links – Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Rafshanzani Suhada.
The Auto Amazon Links – Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary files reads in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.3 via the '/wp-json/wp/v2/aal_ajax_unit_loading' RST API endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.4.2Update to 5.4.3 | CVE-2024-9349 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.1.1Update to 5.1.2 | CVE-2023-52175 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via style ≤5.3.1Update to 5.3.2 | CVE-2023-4482 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤4.6.19Update to 4.6.20 | — |
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.4.2Update to 5.4.3
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.1.1Update to 5.1.2
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via style
≤5.3.1Update to 5.3.2
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.6.19Update to 4.6.20
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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