Medium severity · published Apr 17, 2025
CVE-2025-3453
Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products <= 2.7.7 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
5.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% 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 2.7.7 · 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-2025-3453
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3453
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/password-protected/trunk/includes/compatibility.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3274358/
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/241d75ca-55e3-461a-9844-52e69904da1b?source=cve
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