Security Advisory

CVE-2025-1730

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-03-01 06:39:28
Last updated 2026-04-08 17:24:57
Assigner Wordfence
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 via the simple_download_counter_download_handler. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including any local file on the server, such as wp-config.php or /etc/passwd.