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Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:45:00 +0000
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| Description | The Page and Post Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.1 This is due to the `papr_restrict_page_post_rest_api()` function, hooked on `rest_pre_dispatch`, re-authenticating the current user from the `wordpress_logged_in` cookie via `wp_set_current_user()` for any GET or HEAD REST request where the current user is 0, without verifying a REST nonce — silently undoing the nonce-zeroing that WordPress core's `rest_cookie_check_errors()` performs on cookie-authenticated requests that lack an `X-WP-Nonce` header or `_wpnonce` parameter. Combined with WordPress's permissive REST CORS behavior — which echoes the request `Origin` and sets `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true` — this allows an unauthenticated attacker to read REST API GET responses as a logged-in victim, exposing role-restricted and private post/page content, victim user profile data via `/wp-json/wp/v2/users/me`, and comments the victim is authorized to see. This requires the attacker to lure a logged-in user into visiting an attacker-controlled page that issues credentialed cross-origin `fetch` requests against the target site's REST API; no nonce or further victim interaction beyond the page visit is needed. | |
| Title | Page and Post Restriction <= 1.6.1 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via REST API Nonce Bypass via Cookie Re-Authentication | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-287 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
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Updated: 2026-10-30T05:35:50.445Z
Reserved: 2026-10-27T18:59:48.641Z
Link: CVE-2026-118194
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-30T06:16:47.230
Modified: 2026-10-30T06:16:47.230
Link: CVE-2026-118194
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CWE-287
Improper Authentication