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CVE-2025-2539: File Away <= 3.9.9.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-327

Description

The File Away plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.9.0.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, leveraging the use of a reversible weak algorithm, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Affected products

• thomstark File Away: through 3.9.9.0.1

References

• https://github.com/whattheslime/file-away-exploit?tab=readme-ov-file
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/file-away/trunk/lib/cls/class.fileaway_encrypted.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/file-away/trunk/lib/cls/class.fileaway_stats.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5b23bd5c-db27-4d63-8461-1f36958a2ff6?source=cve

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