# Seriously Simple Podcasting <= 3.17.0 - Unauthenticated Missing Authorization to Edit-Context Episode Data via REST API

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1375
- **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-862
- **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-2026-1375/

## Description

The Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data in all versions up to, and including, 3.17.0 due to a missing capability check on the 'context' parameter of the episodes REST collection endpoint. Only a read-permission check was applied per episode, so context=edit was honored for any caller. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve edit-context fields, such as raw content of password-protected episodes, that should only be available to users who can edit them.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1375/
- 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-2026-1375/

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.