Medium severity · published Feb 20, 2024
CVE-2024-0656
Password Protected <= 2.6.6 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
4.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 27% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PP
Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content · saadiqbal
through 2.6.6 · source: vendor
PP
Password Protected · Wpexperts
before 2.6.7 · source: NVD
Affected product
PP
Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
saadiqbal
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0656
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0656
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3034934%40password-protected&new=3034934%40password-protected&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aba36c3b-beae-4c47-8aa8-5012a7a838ce?source=cve
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