What is CVE-2025-3861?

CVE-2025-3861 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect Wordpress Files, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-04-25.

How severe is CVE-2025-3861?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect Wordpress Files

CVE-2025-3861

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…

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.003 (20.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect Wordpress Files — versions 2.8.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-3861?: CVE-2025-3861 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect Wordpress Files, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-04-25.
How severe is CVE-2025-3861?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.