Vulnerability · Published Mar 8, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-1504Post Lockdown <= 4.0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Post Disclosure
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in Post Lockdown from andyexeter. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 26% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| andyexeter | Post Lockdown | 0 – through 4.0.2 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/447cef6f-fa2e-4087-946d-6e0214830ea9?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-lockdown/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3253378%40post-lockdown&new=3253378%40post-lockdown&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=