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Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files, CVE-2025-3861

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-3861

Published on
Apr 25, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min 2.8.6, max 2.8.8.2.
Status
vulnerable