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CVE-2025-8009

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.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:8e08e9b463b3581e7add3747503ab7c6589833a2ede7a70d57977007ea85ccaa
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Security Ninja – WordPress Security Plugin & Firewall","vendor":"cleverplugins","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"5.242","status":"affected","version":"5.201","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:5a76e210cfaeae4a497d0c84b389eaffcb9bbeb2de54e79664232d1e8030700a · sha256:23ef45ca6080346a… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":4.9,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:5a76e210cfaeae4a497d0c84b389eaffcb9bbeb2de54e79664232d1e8030700a · sha256:23ef45ca6080346a… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-36","description":"CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:5a76e210cfaeae4a497d0c84b389eaffcb9bbeb2de54e79664232d1e8030700a · sha256:23ef45ca6080346a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

4 source assertions
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/security-ninja/trunk/modules/core-scanner/core-scanner.php#L186"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:5a76e210cfaeae4a497d0c84b389eaffcb9bbeb2de54e79664232d1e8030700a · sha256:23ef45ca6080346a… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/security-ninja/trunk/modules/core-scanner/core-scanner.php#L33"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:5a76e210cfaeae4a497d0c84b389eaffcb9bbeb2de54e79664232d1e8030700a · sha256:23ef45ca6080346a… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3333048/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:5a76e210cfaeae4a497d0c84b389eaffcb9bbeb2de54e79664232d1e8030700a · sha256:23ef45ca6080346a… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51ee45f8-9978-48ec-8f87-229dc82938a8?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:5a76e210cfaeae4a497d0c84b389eaffcb9bbeb2de54e79664232d1e8030700a · sha256:23ef45ca6080346a… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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