Vulnerability · Published Aug 7, 2026 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2026-14943Password Protected < 2.8.4 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity information exposure in Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 61.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content	2.6.8 – before 2.8.4

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/874ada86-f13b-44f9-85e6-f2ec16e82f85/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description