CVE-2025-9551

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2025-9551 · DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2025-101 · Published 10/10/2025 · updated 08/10/2026

In short

CVE-2025-9551 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting drupal/protected_pages, protected pages (protected pages project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.37%, higher than 31.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.8.0, 8.x-1.8 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
drupal/protected_pages Packagist:https://packages.drupal.org/8	`< 1.8.0`	`1.8.0`
protected pages protected_pages_project	`< 8.x-1.8`	`8.x-1.8`

Description

This module enables you to protect individual pages with a password.

The module doesn't limit the number of password attempts, making it vulnerable to brute force attacks.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must know the protected page's URL.

CVSS risk score (experimental) 6.3 / Medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

NVD description

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in Drupal Protected Pages allows Brute Force.This issue affects Protected Pages: from 0.0.0 before 1.8.0, from 7.X-1.0 before 7.X-2.5.

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