CVE-2025-3453

EUVD-2025-11502

17.04.2025, 12:15

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.

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	Primary	5.3 MEDIUM	NETWORK	LOW	NONE	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Wordfence	CNA	5.3 MEDIUM				CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Awaiting analysis

This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 43%

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

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