Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease <= 2.6.6 — Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
CVE-2024-0437Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Password Protected password-protected
- Affected≤ 2.6.6
- Patched in2.6.7
Update to 2.6.7 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.6.6. Version 2.6.7 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Password Protected.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.6.7, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Password Protected to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Francesco Carlucci.
The Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.6 via the API. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to extract post titles and content, thus bypassing the plugin's password protection.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Password Protected
All 7| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Freemius purchase_completed Handler ≤2.8.4Update to 2.8.5 | CVE-2026-93293 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Information Exposure ≤2.8.3Update to 2.8.4 | CVE-2026-14943 | |
| Low3.7 | Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass via IP Address Spoofing ≤2.7.11Update to 2.7.12 | CVE-2025-11244 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure ≤2.7.7Update to 2.7.8 | CVE-2025-3453 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7 | CVE-2024-0656 |
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Freemius purchase_completed Handler
≤2.8.4Update to 2.8.5
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤2.8.3Update to 2.8.4
- Low3.7Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass via IP Address Spoofing
≤2.7.11Update to 2.7.12
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2.7.7Update to 2.7.8
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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