CVE-2026-78153

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Assigned by CNA: wpscan

Published 2026-09-02 · Modified 2026-09-02

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CVSS v3

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

The Restrict User Access WordPress plugin before 2.8.1 does not normalise the REST API route before checking it against the routes its content protection covers, allowing unauthenticated users to bypass that protection and read restricted content and enumerate users.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d17c00fc-002a-4f5f-9255-dcc34da89d90/

CWEs

CWE-863

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.