7.5

CVE-2026-14943: unknown password protected — lock entire site, pages, posts, categories, and partial content

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighDeferred
Published 07-08-2026Last modified 07-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-14943 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in unknown password protected — lock entire site, pages, posts, categories, and partial content. EPSS estimates a 0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 2.8.4.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.44%
0%100%
Low · +0.18 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 07-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.44%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

37%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.18 pp

From 0.26% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.44%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (wpscan.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Unknown1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • password-protected≤ 2.8.3 (fixed in 2.8.4)

2 vendors · 2 products

References

2 links