Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.23.81 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read
CVE-2025-11705Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.23.81Update to 4.23.83 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall gotmls
- Affected≤ 4.23.81
- Patched in4.23.83
Update to 4.23.83 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.23.81. Version 4.23.83 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 4.23.83, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Dmitrii Ignatyev.
The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 4.23.81 due to a missing capability check combined with an information exposure in several GOTMLS_* AJAX actions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, 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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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
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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