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Microsoft® Visual Basic for Appications (VBA) allows using a password to protect the source code. When this password is set, a password record is appended to the VBA Macro Storage. However, the source code is not encrypted. VBA 5 encrypts the original password with XOR, while VBA 6 uses SHA-1 to hash the password.

 

AOPR reveals the VBA 5 passwords and allows to change or delete VBA 6 passwords.

 

The Professional Edition of AOPR offers the VBA Backdoor feature that allows bypassing VBA password checks in any application.