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CVE-2025-6722: BitFire <= 4.5 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The BitFire Security – Firewall, WAF, Bot/Spam Blocker, Login Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.5 via the bitfire_* directory that automatically gets created and stores potentially sensitive files without any access restrictions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from various files like config.ini, debug.log, and more when directory listing is enabled on the server and the ~/wp-content/plugins/index.php file is missing or ignored.

Affected products

• bitslip6 BitFire Security – Firewall, WAF, Bot/Spam Blocker, Login Security: through 4.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3334399%40bitfire&new=3334399%40bitfire&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3335461%40bitfire&new=3335461%40bitfire&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72320980-733d-4fe6-9a13-39c476b77298?source=cve

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