Security Ninja – Secure Firewall & Secure Malware Scanner — 5.201 - 5.242 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read
CVE-2025-8009Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: 5.201 – 5.242Update to 5.243 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.9
- CVSS
- 4.9CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Security Ninja – WordPress Security & Firewall security-ninja
- Affected5.201 – 5.242
- Patched in5.243
Update to 5.243 or newer.
You are affected if you run 5.201 – 5.242. Version 5.243 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Security Ninja – WordPress Security & Firewall.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 5.243, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Security Ninja – WordPress Security & Firewall to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jonas Benjamin Friedli.
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.
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 4.9
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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