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CVE-2025-7518: RSFirewall! <= 1.1.42 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Read

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• RSJoomla! RSFirewall!: through 1.1.42

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3306173%40rsfirewall&new=3306173%40rsfirewall&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fd7b0eef-3b8e-4272-bbd7-ad52088d0835?source=cve

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