CVE-2025-3923: Buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: up to and including 2.8.8

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