Information Disclosure Vulnerability in ZKTeco WL20_CVE-2025-55280

5.2 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

This vulnerability exists in ZKTeco WL20 due to storage of Wi-Fi credentials, configuration data and system data in plaintext within the device firmware. An attacker with physical access could exploit this vulnerability by extracting the firmware and reverse engineer the binary data to access the plaintext sensitive data stored in the targeted device.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to gain unauthorized network access, retrieve and manipulate data on the targeted device.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-55280

Source CERT-In

Published Aug 13, 2025 at 11:38

Affected Product

Vendor ZKTeco Co

Product WL20 Biometric Attendance System

Version <=ZLM31-FXO1-3.1.8

Affected Versions ZKTeco Co WL20 Biometric Attendance System <=ZLM31-FXO1-3.1.8

CWE Classification

CWE-312

References

www.cert-in.org.in /s2cMainServlet

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