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CVE-2025-7499
BetterDocs <= 4.1.1 - Missing Authorization to Private And Password-Protected Posts Information Disclosure
Medium5.3EPSS 0.31%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The BetterDocs – Advanced AI-Driven Documentation, FAQ & Knowledge Base Tool for Elementor & Gutenberg with Encyclopedia, AI Support, Instant Answers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the get_response function in all versions up to and including 4.1.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve passwords for password-protected documents as well as the metadata of private and draft documents.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5231b741-4d02-45b5-b2aa-0d9d3536a416?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.1.0/includes/REST/DocCategories.php#L82 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338384/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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