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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-1730
CVE-2025-1730:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress (CVE-2025-1730) contains an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 2.0. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on March 1, 2025 (NVD Database).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in the 'simpledownloadcounterdownloadhandler' functionality and has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 MEDIUM (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N). The weakness is classified as CWE-73 (External Control of File Name or Path) (NVD Database).
Impact
This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access and above to extract sensitive data from any local file on the server, including critical system files such as wp-config.php or /etc/passwd (NVD Database).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update to a version newer than 2.0 when available. No specific workarounds have been publicly documented at the time of this report (NVD Database).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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