The Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'metavalue…
CVE-2026-125409
The Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'metavalue (metakeyinput=passsterid | passsterheadline)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.21 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. A Contributor can break out of the shortcode attribute context by embedding a ] character in the passsterid or passsterheadline meta value to prematurely close the opening shortcode tag, then append a [/passster] closing tag so that the trailing HTML payload is emitted verbatim by doshortcode() — bypassing the per-attribute escaping present inside rendershortcode() — and the script will also execute in an editor's or administrator's browser when they preview the Contributor's pending post, since filterthecontent() has no edit-permission capability gate.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.4 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 13 November 2026
- Last updated
- 13 November 2026
- Assigner
- Wordfence
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
At the source
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/81cf06d2-9b5a-4f9f-adf9-890b46db7783?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-protector/tags/4.3.21/inc/class-ps-public.php#L417
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-protector/tags/4.3.21/inc/class-ps-public.php#L429
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-protector/tags/4.3.21/inc/class-ps-public.php#L294
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-protector/tags/4.3.21/inc/admin/inc/class-ps-meta.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3793918/content-protector/trunk/inc/class-ps-public.php
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