---
id: CVE-2025-9551
title: >-
  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.
summary: >-
  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.
severity: medium
cvss: 6.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L'
cwe:
  - CWE-307
vendor: protected_pages_project
product: protected_pages
affected:
  - protected_pages < 8.x-1.8
patched:
  - protected_pages 8.x-1.8
published: '2025-10-10'
updated: '2026-10-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-08T13:10:00.200'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9551'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://d7es.tag1.com/security-advisories/protected-pages-moderately-critical-access-bypass-sa-contrib-2025-101
    label: mlhess@drupal.org
  - url: 'https://docs.herodevs.com/drupal/release-notes/protected-pages'
    label: mlhess@drupal.org
  - url: 'https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2025-101'
    label: mlhess@drupal.org
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.0037
epssPercentile: 0.28818
ingestedAt: '2026-10-08T13:42:55.090Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `protected_pages < 8.x-1.8`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `protected_pages 8.x-1.8`