Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.23.81 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read

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6.5
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-11705
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 28, 2025
Last Updated October 29, 2025
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev - CleanTalk Inc

Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 4.23.81 due to a missing capability check combined with an information exposure in several GOTMLS_* AJAX actions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Wordfence blocked 25 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall

Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gotmls (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.23.83, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.23.81
Patched Version
  • 4.23.83

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# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.23.87 - Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2026-39478 7.5 daroo April 20, 2026
2 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.21.96 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution CVE-2024-22144 9.0 stealthcopter March 12, 2024
3 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.21.85 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2022-4327 7.2 thinhnguyen1337 December 21, 2022
4 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.20.95 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-0953 6.1 Taurus Omar April 11, 2022
5 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.21.74 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-2599 6.1 Krzysztof Zając February 8, 2022
6 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.20.93 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-25101 6.1 ZhongFu Su January 24, 2022
7 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.15.17 - Cross-Site Scripting 7.2 Tim Coen May 10, 2016
8 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.15.22 - Cross-Site Request Forgery 3.1 James Hooker May 25, 2015
9 Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.15.22 - Cross-Site Scripting 6.1 James Hooker May 25, 2015
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