The Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content WordPress plugin before 2.8.4 does not restrict REST API access to authenticated users when a specific option is enabled, allowing unauthenticated visitors to bypass the sitewide password gate and read otherwise-protected content and account identifiers via the REST API. This re-introduces a previously-fixed issue (CVE-2024-0437), which was patched in 2.6.7 and regressed in 2.6.8.

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Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions password Protected
Vendors & Products Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions password Protected

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Weaknesses CWE-200
CWE-284

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:15:00 +0000

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Description The Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content WordPress plugin before 2.8.4 does not restrict REST API access to authenticated users when a specific option is enabled, allowing unauthenticated visitors to bypass the sitewide password gate and read otherwise-protected content and account identifiers via the REST API. This re-introduces a previously-fixed issue (CVE-2024-0437), which was patched in 2.6.7 and regressed in 2.6.8.
Title Password Protected < 2.8.4 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-07T18:03:33.998Z

Reserved: 2026-07-07T12:05:19.128Z

Link: CVE-2026-14943

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-07T18:03:29.514Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-07T06:16:54.690

Modified: 2026-08-26T16:31:16.753

Link: CVE-2026-14943

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-11T21:16:32Z

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