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.

CVSS v3.1

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

EPSS

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 17th percentile

Published

2026-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2026-14941
• CVE-2026-14960
• CVE-2026-14939
• CVE-2026-14961
• CVE-2026-14938
• CVE-2026-1500