CVE-2026-14943Password Protected < 2.8.4 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API
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It affects Unknown Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.
No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.
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.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- WPScan
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Aug 7, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Unknown Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content unknown:password_protected_lock_entire_site_pages_posts_categories_and_partial_content (from the name) | from 2.6.8 before 2.8.4 | CNA record |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/874ada86-f13b-44f9-85e6-f2ec16e82f85/exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
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