CVE-2025-3861 – WordPress Prevent Direct Access Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-3861 vulnerability over time.

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impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Apr. 25, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Added CWE CWE-863
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prevent-direct-access/tags/2.8.8.2/includes/pda_lite_api.php#L71
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3279923/
    Added Reference https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ed83916-3cf7-4fc6-a16f-45b40cedc721?source=cve
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