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

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 paprrestrictpagepostrestapi() function, hooked on restpredispatch, re-authenticating the current user from the wordpressloggedin cookie via wpsetcurrentuser() 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 restcookiecheckerrors() 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.