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GHSA-VMHF-WMJ5-JX54

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-04-17 12:30 – Updated: 2025-04-17 12:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2025-3453 (GCVE-0-2025-3453)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-17 11:13 – Updated: 2025-04-17 14:34

Summary

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/passwo…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3274358/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	saadiqbal	Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products – Restrict Content, Protect WooCommerce Category and more	Affected: * , ≤ 2.7.7 (semver)

Credits

Brian Sans-Souci Audrey François

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2025-3453 (GCVE-0-2025-3453)

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