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
EPSS: 0.003 (18.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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.
Affected products
- Unknown Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, And Partial Content — versions 2.6.8
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)
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.