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
CVSS score 6.5
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.