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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0031
EPSS Percentile
22.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-863
Status
published
Products (2)
saadiqbal/Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products – Restrict Content, Protect WooCommerce Category and more
< 2.7.7
saadiqbal/Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
< 2.7.7
Published
Apr 17, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026