CVE-2026-114444: medium-severity vulnerability in Security Plugin, Firewall & Malware Scanner…
Security by CleanTalk < 2.191 - Admin+ Sensitive Data Disclosure via FSWatcher File Viewer
Published
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33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 4.4epss 0.2%
The Security Plugin, Firewall & Malware Scanner with Auto Removal WordPress plugin before 2.191 does not restrict its File System Watcher file viewer to Super Admins or to the files it legitimately tracks, allowing a non-super-admin administrator, including a subsite administrator on WordPress multisite, to read the contents of sensitive tracked files such as the main configuration file and disclose the site's authentication keys, salts and, on a standard install, database credentials.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
public PoCs found — 1
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