Sharable Password Protected Posts <= 1.1.0 - Unauthenticated Password protected Post Exposure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2025-5920
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published June 13, 2025
Last Updated July 9, 2025
Researcher Pierre Rudloff
Description

The Sharable Password Protected Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0 due to password exposure of the _sppp_key key through the posts API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract information from password protected posts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sharable-password-protected-posts (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.0
Patched Version
  • 1.1.1
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