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CVE-2025-11705:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress (CVE-2025-11705) contains a vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 4.23.81. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on October 28, 2025, and affects WordPress installations using the mentioned plugin (NVD CVE).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization issue (CWE-862) combined with an information exposure in several GOTMLS_* AJAX actions. The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges (Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server. This access could expose sensitive information stored in server files (NVD CVE).
Mitigation and workarounds
Website administrators running affected versions of the Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin should update to a version newer than 4.23.81 (NVD CVE).
Community reactions
The vulnerability affects approximately 100,000 WordPress sites according to initial reports (Wordfence Blog).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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