Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain Subscriber account on site
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ExploitSend request to restricted file/folder endpoint
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ExecutionMissing authorization check bypassed
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ImpactRead protected file contents
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level (the lowest standard WordPress role) on a site running Prevent files / folders access <= 2.6.7; the plugin must be installed and actively configured to restrict one or more files/folders for the bypass to have meaning. Exploitation is limited by the authentication requirement (self-registration must be enabled or the attacker must otherwise obtain a Subscriber account) and by the confidentiality-only impact - the flaw discloses protected file contents but does not permit modification or denial of service. No user interaction is needed. |
| Impact | This is a genuine-but-low-priority issue. The vendor-provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N = 4.3, Medium) is internally consistent with the CWE-862 Missing Authorization classification and the 'Subscriber' role noted in the description: a low-privileged authenticated user (PR:L) can perform an action over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N), yielding only a limited confidentiality impact (C:L) with no integrity or availability effect. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public proof-of-concept were provided in the intelligence, so exploitation status is: no public exploit identified at time of analysis. No SSVC decision data was supplied. The practical risk is bounded by three factors that all point downward: the attacker must already hold a valid Subscriber account, the impact is confined to bypassing the plugin's own file/folder access restriction (confidentiality-only), and the affected product is a niche WordPress access-control plugin rather than broadly deployed software. This is not a high-CVSS-but-hidden-danger case - the score itself is modest (4.3) and matches the real-world exposure. One labeling caveat: the 'Authentication Bypass' tag overstates the flaw, which is authorization bypass (broken access control, CWE-862), not authentication bypass - an authenticated Subscriber is required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker registers or obtains a low-privilege Subscriber account on a WordPress site running Prevent files / folders access <= 2.6.7. Because the plugin fails to enforce a capability/authorization check on the protected resource, the Subscriber directly requests a file or folder the plugin was configured to restrict and retrieves its contents, bypassing the intended access control. No public exploit code is available and the impact is limited to disclosure of the protected files (confidentiality only, C:L). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
Broken access control in the miniOrange "Prevent files / folders access" WordPress plugin (versions through 2.6.7) lets an authenticated Subscriber - the lowest standard WordPress role - read the contents of files and folders the plugin is configured to protect. The condition is a missing-authorization flaw (CWE-862) scored CVSS 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), so the impact is confidentiality-only: protected content can be disclosed, but nothing can be modified or taken offline. No KEV listing, public exploit code, or EPSS signal accompanies this disclosure, so no public exploit identified at time of analysis; practical risk depends on whether self-registration is enabled on the target site or the attacker otherwise holds a Subscriber account.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis, and no fixed version number is disclosed in the available references, so the first action is to monitor the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/prevent-file-access/vulnerability/wordpress-prevent-files-folders-access-plugin-2-6-7-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) and the plugin's WordPress.org page, then upgrade to the patched release as soon as the vendor publishes it; until then, treat the plugin's access-control promise as unenforced for any logged-in user. Effective compensating controls all target the Subscriber account the exploit requires: disable open self-registration or set new accounts to a role with no read capability and require administrator approval (trade-off: added friction for legitimate sign-ups, and existing Subscriber accounts still qualify, so review and prune them). If the plugin is not essential, deactivate it and replace its protection with webserver-level rules - nginx location blocks, Apache .htaccess deny directives, or equivalent - that reject direct requests to the protected directories regardless of login state (trade-off: static rules cannot express per-user exceptions, so any legitimate authenticated download flow will break and must be re-implemented). Virtual patching through a WAF or the site's security plugin can block requests to the vulnerable plugin endpoints from low-privilege sessions in the interim (trade-off: rule tuning and false positives, and it does not fix the underlying code). Do not rely on hiding file paths as a mitigation, since the missing authorization check applies to any request the plugin is meant to gate.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is a WordPress plugin from vendor miniOrange that restricts direct URL access to selected files and folders, typically under wp-content/uploads or custom paths, by intercepting requests and checking whether the requester is allowed to see the resource. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:miniorange:prevent_files_/_folders_access:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* carries a wildcard version, confirming the vendor/product identity while the Patchstack advisory fixes the concrete affected range at 2.6.7 and earlier. The root cause class is CWE-862 Missing Authorization: the handler that serves or gates protected content does not enforce a capability or role check, so a request from any logged-in user satisfies whatever minimal condition exists. The assessed vector (PR:L, UI:N, S:U, C:L with I:N/A:N) is consistent with an authorization gap that only exposes data to an already-authenticated low-privilege user, rather than one that grants privilege escalation, write access, or a denial-of-service primitive. Because the protection is only meaningful when the plugin is actively configured to guard one or more specific paths, the flaw is exploitable in practice only on sites where that configuration exists and where an attacker can obtain the Subscriber-level account the vector requires.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Network-reachable authorization bypass requiring a low-privilege Subscriber account (PR:L), no user interaction, yielding confidentiality-only disclosure of protected files (C:L, no I/A).
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Prevent files / folders access <= 2.6.7 versions.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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