# CVE-2025-9985: FIFU - Information Disclosure

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-9985 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-9985

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 5.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Marceljm FIFU
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File)
- **Tags:** web_application, wordpress

## Description

The Featured Image from URL (FIFU) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.7 through publicly exposed log files. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view potentially sensitive information contained in the exposed log files.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-9985](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9985) is a vulnerability in the Featured Image from URL (FIFU) WordPress plugin that exposes sensitive information through publicly accessible log files. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to access potentially confidential data, increasing the risk of information disclosure and privacy breaches on affected WordPress sites.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 26th of November 2025.

According to CrowdSec data, while opportunistic exploitation dominates, a portion of threat actors trying to exploit CVE-2025-9985 apply basic targeting methods such as port or service detection. This indicates emerging patterns of selective targeting.
CrowdSec data also reveals a clear uptick in attacks involving CVE-2025-9985 over the past week. Activity is above the usual baseline, suggesting growing attention from attackers. This may reflect rising awareness, recent exploit releases, or expanded targeting efforts.

Attackers attempt to access publicly exposed log files at `/wp-content/uploads/fifu-plugin.log` and `/wp-content/uploads/fifu-cloud.log` to retrieve sensitive information from vulnerable WordPress sites using the Featured Image from URL plugin.

## Timeline

- 2025-09-26: CVE Published. CVE-2025-9985 is published to NVD.
- 2025-11-26: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-9985 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-11-27: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-9985 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-9985.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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