What is CVE-2025-1504?

CVE-2025-1504 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Andyexeter Post Lockdown, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-03-08.

How severe is CVE-2025-1504?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Andyexeter Post Lockdown

CVE-2025-1504

The Post Lockdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.2 via the 'pl_autocomplete' AJAX action due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

Published 2025-03-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (22.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 22.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Andyexeter Post Lockdown — versions 0
Andypalmer Post Lockdown

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/447cef6f-fa2e-4087-946d-6e021… (Third Party Advisory)
wordpress.org/plugins/post-lockdown/ (Product)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-1504?: CVE-2025-1504 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Andyexeter Post Lockdown, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2025-1504?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.