CVE-2025-11244 (GCVE-0-2025-11244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-25 05:31 – Updated: 2025-10-27 15:49
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Summary
The Password Protected plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass via IP address spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.11. This is due to the plugin trusting client-controlled HTTP headers (such as X-Forwarded-For, HTTP_CLIENT_IP, and similar headers) to determine user IP addresses in the `pp_get_ip_address()` function when the "Use transients" feature is enabled. This makes it possible for attackers to bypass authorization by spoofing these headers with the IP address of a legitimately authenticated user, granted the "Use transients" option is enabled (non-default configuration) and the site is not behind a CDN or reverse proxy that overwrites these headers.
Severity ?
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content Affected: * , ≤ 2.7.11 (semver)
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
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