Access Areas for WordPress
Access Areas for WordPress has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.1, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for Access Areas for WordPress has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by 0xd4rk5id3. Access Areas for WordPress is installed on roughly 400 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
CVE-2025-30913Access Areas <= 1.5.19 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
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Access Areas for WordPress
Author
podpirate
WP Access Areas lets you fine-tune who may read, edit or comment on your Blog posts. You can either restrict access to logged-in uses only, certain WordPress-Roles or even custom Access Areas. Features Define custom Access Areas and assign them to your blog-users Restrict reading, editing and commenting permission to logged-in users, certain WordPress-Roles or Access Areas define global access areas on a network Supports bulk editing German, Italian, Polish and Swedish localization (Huge Thankyou @ all translators!) Known Issues WordPress calendar Widget still shows dates where restricted posts have been created. When clicked on such a date a 404 will occur. There is an open WordPress Core ticket on that issue. Taxonomy menus (e.g. Tags / Categories) also count restricted posts when the total number of posts in a taxonomy is ascertained. See this post for details. Development Please head over to the source code on Github.
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