CVE-2025-3453 describes a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability in the Password Protected WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to and including 2.7.7. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the 'password_protected_cookie' function to extract sensitive data, including protected site content, if the 'Use Transient' setting is enabled. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, with a potential impact of data confidentiality loss. Currently, there is 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saadiqbal | Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, And Partial Content | >= 0, <= 2.7.7CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.