Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files <= 2.8.8 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2025-3923
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 24, 2025
Last Updated April 25, 2025
Researcher Tom Broucke
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug prevent-direct-access (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.8
Patched Version
  • 2.8.8.1
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