CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-3453
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/password-protected/trunk/includes/compatibility.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3274358/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/241d75ca-55e3-461a-9844-52e69904da1b?source=cve www.wordfence.com