CVE-2025-3861: Buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 2.8.6 to 2.8.8.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to access and change the protection status of media.

Affected products

• Buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files: from 2.8.6, up to and including 2.8.8.2

Published 2025-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.