FKIE_CVE-2025-3861

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-04-25 06:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:20
Severity
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prevent-direct-access/tags/2.8.8.2/includes/pda_lite_api.php#L71
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3279923/
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ed83916-3cf7-4fc6-a16f-45b40cedc721?source=cve
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T09:20:49.387",
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