PPWP – Password Protect Pages <= 1.9.25 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Predictable Auto-Generated Page Password
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-0175
- Plugin
- PPWP – Password Protect Pages (password-protect-page)
- Affected
- from 1.5.0 before 1.9.26
- Remediation
- Update to 1.9.26 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-330
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions None seen among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-22
- Attack surface
- PPWP – Password Protect Pages on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Password Protect Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.25 due to the use of a predictable, time-based value (uniqid()) as the global password it auto-generates when a page or post is protected with the one-click 'Protect' row action or through category/tag protection. Because this value is only a hex encoding of the current timestamp in microseconds and password attempts are not rate limited, an unauthenticated attacker who can closely estimate when protection was applied, for example when a post was protected right after it was published, can narrow the search space enough to brute-force the auto-generated password and view the protected content.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0175/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/password-protect-page/tags/1.9.26/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protect-page/
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