Post Lockdown <= 4.0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Post Disclosure

2025-03-07 00:00

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 4.0.3

Affected PluginPost Lockdown

Affected Version<= 4.0.2

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2025-1504

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Vulnerability Overview

The Post Lockdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.2 via the 'pl_autocomplete' AJAX action due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.0.3, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1504 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/447cef6f-fa2e-4087-946d-6e0214830ea9

CVSS Vector

4.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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