CVE-2025-7499

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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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5231b741-4d02-45b5-b2aa-0d9d3536a416?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338384/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.1.0/includes/REST/DocCategories.php#L82

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-16

Updated: 2025-08-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00037