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CVE-2024-0616: Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content <= 4.2.6.2 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.2 via API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain post titles, slugs, IDs, content and other metadata including passwords of password-protected posts and pages.

Affected products

• wpchill Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content: before 4.2.6.3 — fixed in 4.2.6.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpchill Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content 4.2.6.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3032195%40content-protector%2Ftrunk&old=3020439%40content-protector%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file3
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/00b81467-8d00-4816-895a-89d67c541c17?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3032195%40content-protector%2Ftrunk&old=3020439%40content-protector%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file3
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/00b81467-8d00-4816-895a-89d67c541c17?source=cve

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