CVE-2026-16983: Unknown Gutentor

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Gutentor WordPress plugin before 4.0.6 does not apply the correct context restriction to one of its REST endpoints, exposing the plaintext passwords of password-protected posts to any authenticated user with at least the Subscriber role.

Affected products

• Unknown Gutentor: before 4.0.6 (fixed in 4.0.6)

Published 2026-09-02. Last modified 2026-09-03.