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WordPress Plugin: private-content: CVE-2023-0581: Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 30, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The PrivateContent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass due to the use of client side validation in versions up to, and including, 8.4.3. This is due to the plugin checking if an IP had been blocklist via client-side scripts rather than server-side. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass any login restrictions that may prevent a brute force attack.

Solution

private-content-plugin-cve-2023-0581
Title
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