CVE-2025-7518

Description

The RSFirewall! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.42 via the get_local_filename() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-11 | Published 2025-07-12 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Robert Kruczek finder

Kamil Szczurowski finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-3b8e-4272-bbd7-ad52088d0835?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...firewall&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-7518)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-7518)

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