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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-3923 EUVD-2025-12397GHSA-3jr3-8hm5-hxqw

Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files <= 2.8.8 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Published Apr 25, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
buildwps Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files ≤ 2.8.8 —

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