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CVE-2025-11729: PPWP: Password Protect Pages, Posts & Full or Partial Content <= 1.9.15 - Improper Authorization To Authenticated (Contributor+) Master Password Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2026-08-19 · updated 2026-09-29
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

The PPWP: Password Protect Pages, Posts & Full or Partial Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a improper capability check on the can_access function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to retrieve a master-password and access any password-protected content.

Affected products

• buildwps PPWP – Password Protect Pages: through 1.9.15

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3486400/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d1e041f0-3019-4d1f-b1a3-b40275c0966a?source=cve

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