CVE-2025-3453 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-3453

Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products <= 2.7.7 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Vulnerability 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.

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:

  • Brian Sans-Souci
  • Audrey François

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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: April 17th, 2025
Last Modified: April 8th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-863

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence
T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
Privilege Escalation
T1021 Remote Services
Lateral Movement
T1098 Account Manipulation
Defense Evasion