Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 25, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-3923

Description

The Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.8 via the 'generate_unique_string' due to insufficient randomness of the generated file name. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including files protected by the plugin if the attacker can determine the file name.

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Affected products

Prevent Direct Access/Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Filesllm-create
Range: <=2.8.8
WordPress/Prevent Direct Accesswp-canonicalize
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/prevent-direct-access

Patches

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References

plugins.svn.wordpress.org/prevent-direct-access/tags/2.8.8/includes/helper.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prevent-direct-access/trunk/includes/helper.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f648a9ca-a72f-418e-bf1b-ad4ecc27d365nvd

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