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CVE-2025-11521: Astra Security Suite – Firewall & Malware Scan <= 0.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-11 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

The Astra Security Suite – Firewall & Malware Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to insufficient validation of remote URLs for zip downloads and an easily guessable key in all versions up to, and including, 0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Affected products

• astrasecuritysuite Astra Security Suite – Firewall & Malware Scan: through 0.2

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/getastra/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f99a6b5c-e95d-49d0-a4b2-1d7188447da1?source=cve

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