Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease <= 2.6.6 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-0437
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published May 14, 2024
Last Updated July 29, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.6 via the API. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to extract post titles and content, thus bypassing the plugin's password protection.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug password-protected (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.6
Patched Version
  • 2.6.7
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