CVE-2024-0437 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-0437

Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease <= 2.6.6 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Francesco Carlucci

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 14th, 2024
Last Modified: April 8th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-284

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1565.002 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact