# Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection

> Create Access Levels and restrict any post, page, category, etc. Supports bbPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, WPML, and more.

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-13 09:32 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `restrict-user-access`
- Author: Joachim Jensen
- Version: 2.8.4
- Active installs: 10,000+
- Last update: 2026-11-07 (6 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 6.1, PHP 8.2
- Tags: access-control, bbPress, capabilities, content restriction, membership
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-user-access/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 6 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- FLAG: Requires PHP 8.2 or newer, above WordPress's own minimum (PHP 7.4).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Breaking ↔ Smooth, Locked in ↔ Portable, Slow ↔ Responsive, Paywalled ↔ Generous, Steep ↔ Easy, Cluttered ↔ Clean.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-11-11 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.8.3). CVE-2026-115600, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6de76b80-fa9d-460e-9e3b-dd8de58f558b?source=api-prod
- 2026-11-11 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.8.3). CVE-2026-124271, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca8dfd10-8c35-4c19-bfb1-8807ef8ab421?source=api-prod
- 2026-10-09 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.8.1). CVE-2026-62040, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8d605f1e-6922-48ab-ae94-2f499750fea5?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-02 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Content Protection Bypass (up to 2.8). CVE-2026-78153, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d261f5d7-bbd5-4434-9468-d23c43653ebd?source=api-prod
- 2024-03-18 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.5). CVE-2024-29138, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/17ffdd6d-3c6c-4f47-9f1c-a0f4c0f5fcdf?source=api-prod
- 2024-02-26 MEDIUM: Information Exposure (up to 2.5). CVE-2024-0687, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f67684cd-3e0f-48bb-967a-16ea2b027843?source=api-prod
- 2022-03-04 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization Checks (before 2.2.2). WF-39fb0499-9ab4-4a2f-b0db-ece86bcf4d42-513, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39fb0499-9ab4-4a2f-b0db-ece86bcf4d42?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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