Medium severity · published May 14, 2024
CVE-2024-0437
Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease <= 2.6.6 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
4.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PP
Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content · saadiqbal
through 2.6.6 · source: vendor
Affected product
PP
Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
saadiqbal
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0437
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0437
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3034934%40password-protected%2Ftrunk&old=3005632%40password-protected%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3045ebf-70af-4124-9116-42c07f64a3bf?source=cve
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