PT-2025-33541 · WordPress · Betterdocs

Aaditya Banwari + 1 · Published 2025-08-16 · Updated 2025-08-16 · CVE-2025-7499

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: BetterDocs – Advanced AI-Driven Documentation, FAQ & Knowledge Base Tool for Elementor & Gutenberg with Encyclopedia, AI Support, Instant Answers plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 4.1.1

Description: The BetterDocs plugin for WordPress is susceptible to unauthorized data access due to a missing capability check on the get response function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve passwords for password-protected documents and metadata of private and draft documents.

Recommendations: Update to a version beyond 4.1.1.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-7499

Affected Products

Betterdocs

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7499 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1956637616297652553 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/30188 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/132573 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5231b741-4d02-45b5-b2aa-0d9d3536a416?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.1.0/includes/REST/DocCategories.php#L82 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1956654773819846664 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3338384 · Note