# Podlove Podcast Publisher <= 4.5.3 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure of Unpublished Episodes

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1215
- **Plugin:** Podlove Podcast Publisher (`podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 4.5.4
- **Fixed in:** 4.5.4 (Update to 4.5.4 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-200
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-18)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress
- **Fix released:** 2026-08-15
- **Published:** 2026-10-18
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1215/

## Description

The Podlove Podcast Publisher plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.3 due to missing read-access checks on the episode, transcript, chapter and contribution REST routes and on the download tracking redirect. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve metadata, transcripts and media files of draft, scheduled or private episodes.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1215/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress/tags/4.5.4/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1215/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.