Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files: A security weakness
Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files
- Plugin slug
prevent-direct-access- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 25, 2025
This CVE was published Apr 25, 2025 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N