Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products <= 2.7.7 — Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
CVE-2025-3453Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.7.7Update to 2.7.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect 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
- Affected≤ 2.7.7
- Patched in2.7.8
Update to 2.7.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.7.7. Version 2.7.8 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
- Update to version 2.7.8, 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 Brian Sans-Souci (liardom), the sneaky squirrel.
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.
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 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure ≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7 | CVE-2024-0437 | |
| 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
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.6.6Update to 2.6.7
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
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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