# Business Places <= 2.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API Endpoints

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-0753
- **Plugin:** Business Places – Opening Hours Table & Local Business Schema (`taro-open-hour`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/taro-open-hour/
- **Affected versions:** from 2.0.0 before 2.3.0
- **Fixed in:** 2.3.0 (Update to 2.3.0 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-10)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/taro-open-hour
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-09
- **Published:** 2026-10-10
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0753/

## Description

The Business Places plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via the business-places/v1/places and place REST API endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1. This is due to a permission callback that always returns true, combined with responses that return the entire WP_Post object instead of a limited set of fields. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve every field of published business place posts, including the post content of the non-public location post type and the passwords of password-protected place posts.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0753/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/taro-open-hour/tags/2.3.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/taro-open-hour/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0753/

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