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CVE-2025-11705: Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.23.81 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2025-10-29 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 4.23.81 due to a missing capability check combined with an information exposure in several GOTMLS_* AJAX actions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Affected products

• scheeeli Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall: through 4.23.81

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3379118/gotmls
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-11705/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2c8838c-d29a-4df8-85b3-6e440ba7f962?source=cve

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