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Page Restriction WordPress (WP) – Protect WP Pages/Post <= 1.3.6 — Unauthenticated Content Restriction Bypass to Sensitive Information Exposure

CVE-2024-11297Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.3.6Update to 1.3.7 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-200 Information Exposure
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Page and Post Restriction page-and-post-restriction

  1. Affected≤ 1.3.6
  2. Patched in1.3.7

Update to 1.3.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.6. Version 1.3.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Page and Post Restriction.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.3.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Page and Post Restriction to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Francesco Carlucci.

The Page Restriction WordPress (WP) – Protect WP Pages/Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.6 via the WordPress core search feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from posts that have been restricted to higher-level roles such as administrator.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Page and Post Restriction

All 7
More vulnerabilities in Page and Post Restriction
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.5Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via REST API Nonce Bypass via Cookie Re-Authentication
≤1.6.1Update to 1.6.2
CVE-2026-118194
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤1.6.1Update to 1.6.2
CVE-2026-54852
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤1.6.0Update to 1.6.1
CVE-2026-114696
High7.5Unauthenticated Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API
≤1.4.1Update to 1.4.2
CVE-2026-12000
Medium5.3Protection Mechanism Bypass
≤1.3.4Update to 1.3.5
CVE-2024-0681

Same weakness (Information Exposure)

All Information Exposure
Other Information Exposure vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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