CVE-2025-5998 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the PPWP – Password Protect Pages WordPress plugin prior to version 1.9.11, affecting passwordprotectwp password_protect_wordpress. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows authenticated users with subscriber-level roles or higher to bypass password protection and view restricted content via the REST API. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.9.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:passwordprotectwp:password_protect_wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.