CVE-2025-3453: Saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, And Partial Content

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, And Partial Content: up to and including 2.7.7

Published 2025-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.