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CVE-2025-3453: Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products <= 2.7.7 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products – Restrict Content, Protect WooCommerce Category and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 via the 'password_protected_cookie' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including all protected site content if the 'Use Transient' setting is enabled.

Affected products

• saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content: through 2.7.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/password-protected/trunk/includes/compatibility.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3274358/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/241d75ca-55e3-461a-9844-52e69904da1b?source=cve

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