CVE-2025-7499 (GCVE-0-2025-7499)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-16 07:25
Modified
2025-08-16 07:25
CWE
Summary
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.
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