CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-14943

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content WordPress plugin before version 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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can access protected content and account data, violating confidentiality and potentially enabling further attacks.

Recommendation

Update the Password Protected plugin to version 2.8.4 or later. Review REST API option settings and ensure access is restricted to authenticated users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS