Proof of Concept for “viewing unauthenticated posts” in WordPress 5.2.3

A couple of days WordPress released 5.2.4 with a few security patches. Props to J.D. Grimes who found and disclosed a method of viewing unauthenticated posts. caught my attention, but I couldn’t find a public Proof of Concept, so I set out to reverse engi… Read more

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