CVE-2026-1181946.5MediumCWE-287

CVE-2026-118194: Page and Post Restriction <= 1.6.1 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via REST API Nonce Bypass via Cookie Re-Authentication

cyberlord92 · Page and Post Restriction

Affected: cyberlord92 Page and Post Restriction · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

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0.3%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

28th percentile

050100

Higher than 28% of scored CVEs

6.5MediumCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

cyberlord92 · Page and Post Restrictionup to and including 1.6.1

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Improper Authentication · Authentication
Vendor: cyberlord92
Published: October 2026
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), October 2026

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