CVE-2024-0437 Missing authorization in Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
Authenticated subscribers can bypass password protection to read protected post titles and content via the API.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-0437?
CVE-2024-0437 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content, published on 14 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.6 via the API. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to extract post titles and content, thus bypassing the plugin's password protection.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0437?
How do I fix CVE-2024-0437?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0437 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-0437 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0437 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-grrx-rcvg-88x9.