WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Password Protect WordPress Lite < 1.9.22 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The PPWP – Password Protect WordPress | #1 Most-Reviewed Password Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ppwp' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.21 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.9.22

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-08-24 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-08-24 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-08-25 (about 1 month ago)

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