🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-0656

MEDIUM 4.4

Password Protected <= 2.6.6 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVSS Score
4.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Google Captcha Site Key in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor saadiqbal
Product password protected — lock entire site, pages, posts, categories, and partial content
Published Feb 20, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

saadiqbal / Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
0 ≤ 2.6.6

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aba36c3b-beae-4c47-8aa8-5012a7a838ce?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3034934%40password-protected&new=3034934%40password-protected&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Credits

Felipe Restrepo Rodriguez