Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Apr 25, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-3861

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.

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prevent-direct-access/tags/2.8.8.2/includes/pda_lite_api.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3279923/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ed83916-3cf7-4fc6-a16f-45b40cedc721nvd

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