Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products <= 2.7.7 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Incorrect Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-3453
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 16, 2025
Last Updated April 17, 2025
Researcher Brian Sans-Souci (liardom), the sneaky squirrel
Description

The Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products – Restrict Content, Protect WooCommerce Category and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 via the 'password_protected_cookie' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including all protected site content if the 'Use Transient' setting is enabled.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug password-protected (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.7
Patched Version
  • 2.7.8
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