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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-11 | Published 2025-08-16 | Updated 2025-08-18 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Timeline

2025-06-30:Discovered
2025-07-16:Vendor Notified
2025-08-15:Disclosed

Credits

Aaditya Banwari finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-4d02-45b5-b2aa-0d9d3536a416?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ncludes/REST/DocCategories.php

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

cve.org (CVE-2025-7499)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-7499)

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