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CVE-2025-14865: Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content <= 4.2.24 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2026-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'content_protector' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.24. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 4.2.21.

Affected products

• wpchill Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content: through 4.2.24

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-protector/tags/4.2.20/inc/class-ps-public.php#L136
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3422595/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439532/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ea939f5-8b56-44be-bd20-b69e9ded5970?source=cve

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