CVE-2025-3861

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.4). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 22% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-863
Published: 2025-04-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prevent-direct-access/tags/2.8.8.2/includes/pda_lite_api.php#L71
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3279923/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ed83916-3cf7-4fc6-a16f-45b40cedc721?source=cve

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