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CVE-2026-118194medium6.5

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

Impact

The Page and Post Restriction WordPress plugin, versions up to 1.6.1, has an authentication bypass vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker can read REST API responses as a logged-in user by luring them to an attacker-controlled page. This exposes private content and user data.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.
Applies when

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 packages

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cyberlord92 · Wordfence

Page and Post Restriction

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affected

0 → through 1.6.1

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Original source 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.

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CVE-2026-118194

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Underlying weaknesses

The source’s classification of what caused the vulnerability.

CWE-287 ↗

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

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Contributing organizations · 2
Wordfence

Assigning organization

2026-10-30
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-30

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-118194

    Observed 2026-10-30T19:12:50.373Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T18:09:01.200Z

    Prioritization updated

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