Abstract: To mitigate the damage of key exposure in the context of ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE). The syntax and security model of forward-secure CP-ABE was presented. Then, a concreted forward-secure CP-ABE scheme was constructed. Under the l-BDHE assumption, the proposed scheme was proved secure in the standard model. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed scheme was discussed in terms of security and efficiency. The results demonstrate that the proposed scheme strengthens the security of CP-ABE, without getting overmuch cost of computation and storage, and thus is more feasible for practical applications.