Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify site using Passster-protected content
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ExploitRequest the gated resource directly
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ExecutionAccess-control check is bypassed
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ImpactProtected content disclosed
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The target site must have the Passster (content-protector) plugin installed and actively used to restrict content via its access-control security levels - the flaw only matters where content is gated, since it defeats that specific protection. Exploitation requires no authentication, no user interaction, and no non-default configuration per the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), so any publicly reachable site running Passster <= 4.3.18 with protected content is exposed. The practical limit on impact is scope: only confidentiality of the Passster-gated content is affected (C:L, I:N, A:N) - no data modification, code execution, or site takeover results, and sites not using Passster's protection feature are unaffected. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity Missing Authorization flaw (CWE-862) in the WP Chill Passster WordPress plugin, scored CVSS 5.3 with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated, affecting only confidentiality at a low level. The real-world risk is best characterized as low-to-moderate: the attack is trivially reachable (no auth, no user interaction, low complexity) but the impact is narrow - Passster's entire purpose is to gate content behind passwords/access levels, so a broken access control defeats that protection and exposes the specific content the operator intended to hide (C:L, no I/A impact). No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided in the intelligence, so there is no signal of active or widespread exploitation; this is a single-source (Patchstack) advisory. SSVC-style framing: exploitation is 'none' observed, technical impact is partial, and automatability is plausible given the unauthenticated network vector - but the limited confidentiality-only impact keeps this out of emergency-patch territory. Treat as a routine prioritized patch for sites that actually rely on Passster for content gating rather than a broad-fleet emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote, unauthenticated attacker requests a URL or endpoint for content that a site owner has restricted behind Passster's password/access-level protection. Because the plugin fails to properly enforce its configured access-control security levels, the server returns the protected content without requiring the password or access check, exposing intended-private material. No public exploit code was identified, and the low attack complexity (AC:L) means no special timing or conditions are needed once the gated resource is known. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 16, 2026
Missing authorization in the WP Chill Passster WordPress plugin (content-protector) through version 4.3.18 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass the plugin's gated-content access controls and read content that the site owner intended to restrict. According to the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), exploitation requires no authentication, no user interaction, and no non-default configuration, but the impact is confined to low-level confidentiality loss - no data modification, code execution, or site takeover. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the flaw only matters on sites that actively use Passster's protection feature to gate content; sites that do not gate content with the plugin are unaffected.
RemediationAI
Patch status: no vendor-released patch version is identified in the available data at time of analysis, so check the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/content-protector/vulnerability/wordpress-passster-plugin-4-3-18-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) and the WordPress.org plugin page for a Passster release newer than 4.3.18 and upgrade the plugin as soon as one is published, verifying the plugin's access-control settings after the update. If no fixed release is available, compensating controls are: (1) temporarily deactivate the Passster plugin where the gated content is sensitive - the trade-off is that all content becomes publicly visible, which is worse than the current limited exposure, so this is only appropriate if you can also unpublish or move the sensitive content; (2) move sensitive gated content behind a server- or host-level protection that does not depend on the plugin, such as HTTP basic auth on the affected path, an IP allowlist, or a WordPress-level capability check in a maintained membership plugin - the trade-off is that this applies to all users of that path and can break legitimate public visitors; (3) keep WordPress core and all plugins up to date and monitor the advisory feed for the fixed Passster version. Note that the exposure is read-only and limited to the confidentiality of Passster-gated content, so prioritization should reflect whether the gated material is business-sensitive.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The issue is a CWE-862 Missing Authorization flaw in the WP Chill Passster plugin (WordPress.org slug content-protector), a content-protection plugin that conditionally restricts posts, pages, and page fragments based on configured access-control security levels. In affected versions up to and including 4.3.18, the plugin fails to enforce an authorization check on the code path that renders or serves protected content, so a request that should be denied is instead served. This is an incorrectly configured/enforced access-control boundary rather than an injection or memory-safety bug, which is why the CVSS vector is limited to confidentiality (C:L) with no integrity or availability impact and scope unchanged (S:U). The CPE cpe:2.3:a:wp_chill:passster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* indicates the whole version line prior to the fixed release is considered affected. Because the vulnerable surface is a WordPress plugin endpoint reachable over HTTP, the attack is network-based, low-complexity, and unauthenticated per the assessed vector.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Unauthenticated network request bypasses access control (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) disclosing gated content, giving limited confidentiality impact only (C:L, I:N, A:N, S:U).
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Missing Authorization vulnerability in WP Chill Passster content-protector allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Passster: from n/a through 4.3.18.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-102869
GHSA-xmvj-cg9h-p459
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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