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Password Protected <= 2.7.11 — Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass via IP Address Spoofing

CVE-2025-11244Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.7.11Update to 2.7.12 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Low3.7
CVSS
3.7
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-285 Improper Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Password Protected password-protected

  1. Affected≤ 2.7.11
  2. Patched in2.7.12

Update to 2.7.12 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.7.11. Version 2.7.12 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.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.7.12, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Password Protected to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Dmitrii Ignatyev.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤2.8.3Update to 2.8.4
CVE-2026-14943
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2.7.7Update to 2.7.8
CVE-2025-3453
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7
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Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity low, CVSS 3.7

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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