WordPress plugin vulnerabilities
Password Protected - Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content vulnerabilities
Known security issues in the Password Protected - Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content WordPress plugin, by affected version, with severity, CVE and the version that fixes each one.
- Plugin slug
- password-protected
- Latest version
- 2.8.4
- Active installs
- 300,000+
- Known vulnerabilities
- 9
- Data updated
- 2026-10-18 10:09 UTC
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Fixed in version 2.8.4 (1)
| Vulnerability | Severity | CVSS | Affected versions | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [en] The Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content WordPress plugin before 2.8.4 does not restrict REST API access to authenticated users when a specific option is enabled, allowing unauthenticated CVE-2026-14943 · Source | Not rated | - | < 2.8.4 | 2026-08-07 |
Fixed in version 2.7.12 (1)
| Vulnerability | Severity | CVSS | Affected versions | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Password Protected <= 2.7.11 - Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass via IP Address Spoofing CVE-2025-11244 · Source | Low | 3.7 | < 2.7.12 | 2025-10-24 |
Fixed in version 2.7.8 (1)
| Vulnerability | Severity | CVSS | Affected versions | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Password Protected – Password Protect your WordPress Site, Pages, & WooCommerce Products <= 2.7.7 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure CVE-2025-3453 · Source | Medium | 5.3 | < 2.7.8 | 0000-00-00 |
Fixed in version 2.6.7 (2)
| Vulnerability | Severity | CVSS | Affected versions | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Password Protected <= 2.6.6 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-0656 · Source | Medium | 4.8 | < 2.6.7 | 2024-02-19 |
| Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease <= 2.6.6 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure CVE-2024-0437 · Source | Medium | 4.3 | < 2.6.7 | 2024-05-14 |
Fixed in version 2.6.3.2 (1)
| Vulnerability | Severity | CVSS | Affected versions | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress Password Protected Plugin <= 2.6.3.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVE-2023-33999 · Source | High | 7.1 | < 2.6.3.2 | 2023-07-18 |
Fixed in version 2.6.3 (1)
| Vulnerability | Severity | CVSS | Affected versions | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress Password Protected Plugin <= 2.6.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVE-2023-32580 · Source | Medium | 5.9 | < 2.6.3 | 2023-06-13 |
Fixed in version 1.5 (2)
| Vulnerability | Severity | CVSS | Affected versions | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress Password Protected Plugin <= 1.4 - Arbitrary Site Redirect No CVE assigned · Source | Not rated | - | < 1.5 | 2015-11-27 |
| Password Protected 1.4 - Login Process redirect_to Parameter Arbitrary Site Redirect No CVE assigned · Source | Not rated | - | < 1.5 | - |
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