Known vulnerabilities in Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content

Protect your WordPress site, pages, posts, WooCommerce products, and categories with single or multiple passwords.

6Reported vulnerabilities

5.3Highest CVSS score

2.8.4Latest version

300,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content to 2.8.4 or later. 6 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: July 30, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2026-14943	Medium 5.3	0.3%	2.8.3 and earlier	`2.8.4`	August 3, 2026
CVE-2025-3453	Medium 5.3	0.3%	0 to 2.7.7 (inclusive)	`2.7.8`	April 17, 2025
CVE-2024-0656	Medium 4.8	0.3%	Before 2.6.7	`2.6.7`	February 29, 2024
CVE-2023-32580	Medium 4.4	0.4%	2.6.2 and earlier	`2.6.3`	June 13, 2023
CVE-2024-0437	Medium 4.3	0.3%	2.6.6 and earlier	`2.6.7`	May 14, 2024
CVE-2025-11244	Low 3.7	0.3%	0 to 2.7.11 (inclusive)	`2.7.12`	October 25, 2025

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.