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CVE-2024-0656: Password Protected <= 2.6.6 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% 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-79

Description

The Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Google Captcha Site Key in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content: before 2.6.7 — fixed in 2.6.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content 2.6.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3034934%40password-protected&new=3034934%40password-protected&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aba36c3b-beae-4c47-8aa8-5012a7a838ce?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3034934%40password-protected&new=3034934%40password-protected&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aba36c3b-beae-4c47-8aa8-5012a7a838ce?source=cve

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