# Seriously Simple Podcasting <= 3.17.0 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure of Password-Protected Episode Media via REST API and Playlist AJAX

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1374
- **Plugin:** Seriously Simple Podcasting (`seriously-simple-podcasting`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 3.17.1
- **Fixed in:** 3.17.1 (Update to 3.17.1 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 Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-21)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/seriously-simple-podcasting
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-19
- **Published:** 2026-10-21
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1374/

## Description

The Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via the REST API episode fields (download link, player link, player and meta), the playlist AJAX response and the episode download route in all versions up to, and including, 3.17.0, due to the media URL and excerpt of an episode being returned without checking whether the episode is password-protected. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain the media file URLs and excerpt text of password-protected episodes without knowing the password.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1374/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/seriously-simple-podcasting/tags/3.17.1/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1374/

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.