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Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall vulnerabilities
Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall has 4 known vulnerabilities in this database. The most recent published record is dated 29 Oct 2025.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 4
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- Latest version
- 4.23.90
- Last updated
- 29 Jun 2026
- Most recent
- 29 Oct 2025
Find it in your WordPress dashboard under Plugins. Severity is based on the CVSS score published with the CVE where one is available.
| Vulnerability | Severity | Affected | Fix | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbitrary file read CVE-2025-11705 | Medium 6.5 | Up to 4.23.81 | Fixed in a later version (latest 4.23.90) | 29 Oct 2025 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2022-2599 | Medium 6.1 | Before 4.21.83 | Fixed in 4.21.83 | 29 Aug 2022 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2022-0953 | Medium 6.1 | Before 4.20.96 | Fixed in 4.20.96 | 25 Apr 2022 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2021-25101 | Medium 4.8 | Before 4.20.94 | Fixed in 4.20.94 | 21 Feb 2022 |
Read the published descriptions
- CVE-2025-11705, 29 Oct 2025
- 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. CVE record
- CVE-2022-2599, 29 Aug 2022
- The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.21.83 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in an admin dashboard, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE record
- CVE-2022-0953, 25 Apr 2022
- The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.96 does not sanitise and escape the QUERY_STRING before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters CVE record
- CVE-2021-25101, 21 Feb 2022
- The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.94 does not sanitise and escape the POST data before outputting it back in attributes of an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site scripting. Due to the presence of specific parameter value, available to admin users, this can only be exploited by an admin against another admin user. CVE record
What to do if you run Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall
If you run Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, open WordPress and check the installed version in Plugins. Compare it with the affected versions in the vulnerability record. If a fixed version is available, take a current backup and update to that version or the latest supported release.
If no fixed version exists, consider disabling and removing the plugin or replacing it with a maintained alternative. After dealing with the affected software, check administrator users, unexpected file changes, redirects, unfamiliar pages and security logs for signs that the site may already have been altered.
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