CVE-2025-2539

File Away <= 3.9.9.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

7.5 HighPublic exploit

The File Away plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.9.0.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, leveraging the use of a reversible weak algorithm, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: None
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
Availability: None

Exploit likelihood

1.69%Up 1.7 points since Mar 20, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.5

File Away <= 3.9.9.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

Record: CVE-2025-2539
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-327
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-6807 7.5

Record: EUVD-2025-6807
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-c39q-wr4f-xpw7 7.5

The File Away plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing...

Record: GHSA-c39q-wr4f-xpw7
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-327
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 7.5

Record: CVE-2025-2539
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-327
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
Source	Link	Date
Nuclei	File Away <= 3.9.9.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read
PoC in GitHub	RootHarpy/CVE-2025-2539	2025-06-04
PoC in GitHub	Yucaerin/CVE-2025-2539	2025-06-09
PoC in GitHub	d4rkh0rse/CVE-2025-2539	2025-06-21
PoC in GitHub	fazaroot/CVE-2025-2539---File-Away-WordPress-Plugin-Arbitrary-File-Read	2025-12-13
PoC in GitHub	verylazytech/CVE-2025-2539	2025-05-26

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, Nuclei, NVD, PoC in GitHub

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-2539 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in File Away Project Away, published March 20, 2025. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.69%, the 77th percentile. No source names a fixed version.