🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2025-7499

MEDIUM 5.3

BetterDocs <= 4.1.1 - Missing Authorization to Private And Password-Protected Posts Information Disclosure

CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-862
Vendor wpdevteam
Product betterdocs – knowledge base docs & faq solution for elementor & block editor
Published Aug 16, 2025
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

wpdevteam / BetterDocs – Knowledge Base Docs & FAQ Solution for Elementor & Block Editor
0 ≤ 4.1.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5231b741-4d02-45b5-b2aa-0d9d3536a416?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.1.0/includes/REST/DocCategories.php#L82 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338384/

Credits

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