PPWP – Password Protect Pages <= 1.9.5 - Unauthenticated Content Restriction Bypass to Sensitive Information Exposure

5.3
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2024-11280
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published December 16, 2024
Last Updated December 17, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci

Description

The PPWP – Password Protect Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.5 via the WordPress core search feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from posts that have been restricted to higher-level roles such as administrator.

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Vulnerability Details for PPWP – Password Protect Pages

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug password-protect-page (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.9.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.5
Patched Version
  • 1.9.6

Recent vulnerabilities in PPWP – Password Protect Pages

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 PPWP – Password Protect Pages <= 1.9.19 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2026-57634 4.3 Ananda Dhakal June 26, 2026
2 PPWP – Password Protect Pages <= 1.9.15 - Missing Authorization CVE-2026-32562 4.3 Doan Dinh Van (d52v) March 23, 2026
3 PPWP – Password Protect Pages <= 1.9.10 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Content Exposure via REST API CVE-2025-5998 4.3 Pierre Rudloff August 25, 2025
4 PPWP – Password Protect Pages <= 1.8.9 - Protection Mechanism Bypass CVE-2024-0620 5.3 Francesco Carlucci February 7, 2024
5 PPWP – WordPress Password Protect Page <= 1.8.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2022-4626 6.4 István Márton January 10, 2023

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