CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-3861
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-04-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
The Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data| due to a misconfigured capability check on the 'pda_lite_custom_permission_check' function in versions 2.8.6 to 2.8.8.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to access and change the protection status of media.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prevent-direct-access/tags/2.8.8.2/includes/pda_lite_api.php#L71 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3279923/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ed83916-3cf7-4fc6-a16f-45b40cedc721?source=cve www.wordfence.com