CVE-2025-11729 PUBLISHED

PPWP: Password Protect Pages, Posts & Full or Partial Content <= 1.9.15 - Improper Authorization To Authenticated (Contributor+) Master Password Exposure

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 13.10.2025 Published: 18.08.2026 Updated: 18.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor buildwps
Product PPWP – Password Protect Pages
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.9.15 (incl.)

Credits

  • Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization CWE