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CVE-2025-7499: BetterDocs <= 4.1.1 - Missing Authorization to Private And Password-Protected Posts Information Disclosure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The BetterDocs – Advanced AI-Driven Documentation, FAQ & Knowledge Base Tool for Elementor & Gutenberg with Encyclopedia, AI Support, Instant Answers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the get_response function in all versions up to and including 4.1.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve passwords for password-protected documents as well as the metadata of private and draft documents.

Affected products

• wpdevteam BetterDocs – Knowledge Base Docs & FAQ Solution for Elementor & Block Editor: through 4.1.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.1.0/includes/REST/DocCategories.php#L82
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338384/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5231b741-4d02-45b5-b2aa-0d9d3536a416?source=cve

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