Security Ninja – Secure Firewall & Secure Malware Scanner - 5.201 - 5.242 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read

Absolute Path Traversal
CVE CVE-2025-8009
CVSS Medium (4.9)
Publicly Published July 23, 2025
Last Updated July 24, 2025
Researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli
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

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug security-ninja (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 5.201 - 5.242
Patched Version
  • 5.243
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