CVE-2025-3453

medium

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

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/241d75ca-55e3-461a-9844-52e69904da1b?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3274358/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/password-protected/trunk/includes/compatibility.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-04-17

Updated: 2025-04-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00027