Information disclosure in Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, And Partial Content

CVE-2026-14943

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 class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (38.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 38.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-14943: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, And Partial Content — versions 2.6.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-14943?
CVE-2026-14943 is a high-severity vulnerability in Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, And Partial Content, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-08-07.
How severe is CVE-2026-14943?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.