CVE-2025-1504 Post Lockdown <= 4.0.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Post Disclosure
Authenticated subscribers can access private, password-protected, or draft posts via an AJAX action due to missing authorization checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-1504?
CVE-2025-1504 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in andyexeter Post Lockdown, published on 8 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1504?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Andypalmer Post Lockdown.
How do I fix CVE-2025-1504?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1504 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-1504 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1504 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5q65-hq89-vxj6.