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CVE-2024-0620: PPWP – Password Protect Pages <= 1.8.9 - Protection Mechanism Bypass

• 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 PPWP – Password Protect Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.9 via API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain post titles, IDs, slugs as well as other information including for password-protected posts.

Affected products

• buildwps PPWP – Password Protect Pages: before 1.9.0 — fixed in 1.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: buildwps PPWP – Password Protect Pages 1.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3032733%40password-protect-page%2Ftrunk&old=3010000%40password-protect-page%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/41299927-2ed9-4cbe-b2b0-f306dc0e4a58?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3032733%40password-protect-page%2Ftrunk&old=3010000%40password-protect-page%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/41299927-2ed9-4cbe-b2b0-f306dc0e4a58?source=cve

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