🛡️ CVE-2026-15939

🟢 CVSS 2.7 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-863 NVD
2.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Simple Restrict WordPress plugin before 1.2.9 does not enforce its content-restriction permission check on the REST API the way it does on the front end, relying there on a generic capability check instead of the Simple Restrict WordPress plugin before 1.2.9's own permission system, allowing users with contributor-level access or above to read the content of restricted posts and pages they were never granted access to.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-15939 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

CVE-2026-15939 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 2 August 2026 and last revised on 5 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-02
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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