What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-3923: Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files <= 2.8.8 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files: through 2.8.8

References

• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/prevent-direct-access/tags/2.8.8/includes/helper.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prevent-direct-access/trunk/includes/helper.php#L16
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f648a9ca-a72f-418e-bf1b-ad4ecc27d365?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2025-3923 or the next vulnerability affects your stack