Medium severity4.9NVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-7518

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

WordPress/Rsfirewallinferred
Range: <=1.1.42
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rsfirewall

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fd7b0eef-3b8e-4272-bbd7-ad52088d0835nvd

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