CVE-2025-14865

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Description

The Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'content_protector' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.24. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 4.2.21.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ea939f5-8b56-44be-bd20-b69e9ded5970?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439532/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3422595/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-protector/tags/4.2.20/inc/class-ps-public.php#L136

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-01-28

Updated: 2026-01-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0003