CVE-2026-14943

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Aug 26, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content	>= 2.6.8, < 2.8.4

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/874ada86-f13b-44f9-85e6-f2ec16e82f85/

Timeline

Published: Aug 7, 2026
Last modified: Aug 26, 2026
NVD status: Deferred

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