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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-3453

The Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products – Restrict Content, Protect WooCommerce Category and more plugin for WordPress is vulne

Published Apr 17, 2025 · catalog updated Apr 8, 2026 · Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-3453. EPSS is 0.36%. Act only if a listed version of Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
Medium5.3
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.36%
Remediation
Vendor / distro source
Affected products
vendor saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content 0 ≤2.7.7

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.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content 0 ≤2.7.70 ≤2.7.7

How to fix CVE-2025-3453

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-3453. EPSS is 0.36%. Act only if a listed version of Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content 0 ≤2.7.7 0 ≤2.7.7. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.36%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Apr 17, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    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 a

  2. Apr 8, 2026 · EUVD

    Updated

    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 a

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-3453

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-3453

    30-day exploitation probability 0.4%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-11502

    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 'passwor

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.