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Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease, CVE-2025-3453

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-3453

Published on
Apr 17, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.7.8.
Status
vulnerable