CVE-2025-11729PPWP: Password Protect Pages, Posts & Full or Partial Content <= 1.9.15 - Improper Authorization To Authenticated (Contributor+) Master Password Exposure
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The PPWP: Password Protect Pages, Posts & Full or Partial Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a improper capability check on the can_access function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to retrieve a master-password and access any password-protected content.
- CVSS
- 4.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-285
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Aug 19, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
buildwps PPWP – Password Protect Pages buildwps:ppwp_password_protect_pages (from the name) | through 1.9.15 | CNA record |
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d1e041f0-3019-4d1f-b1a3-b40275c0966a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3486400/
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