CVE-2025-3453 Information disclosure in Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
Unauthenticated attackers can extract all protected site content if the Use Transient setting is enabled in the Password Protected WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-3453?
CVE-2025-3453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content, published on 17 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3453?
How do I fix CVE-2025-3453?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3453 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-3453 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3453 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vmhf-wmj5-jx54.