SECURITY BUG: UM access restrictions not working for lists of posts

  • Resolved melodyz

    (@melodyz)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    We are attempting to use the UM content availability features to create a list of news posts that are only available to logged-in users. While we can get it to control direct access to individual posts correctly, it is not protecting the same content when displayed in lists (either a “posts” page or a “category” page). We have tried disabling all other plugins and switched to a default theme and still had the problem, so it doesn’t appear to be a conflict.

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Create a category, e.g. “news”, and set the Content Availability to “Content accessible to Logged In Users”, with the redirect URL set to ‘/login/‘.
    2. Create some posts with category set to “news”.
    3. Attempt to access /categories/news as a guest user (not logged in)
    It displays a list of excerpts of the posts which should not be visible.

    4. Click on the title of any of the posts.
    It properly redirects to /login/.

    There is a similar bug with any WordPress “posts” page. If any of the posts are not restricted, it will display the excerpts for all posts, even the ones that have a private category assigned to them.

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Create some posts with Apply custom access settings turned on, and “Content accessible to Logged In Users” selected.
    2. Create one post with no access restrictions.
    3. Attempt to access the posts page as a guest user (not logged in).
    It displays a list of excerpts of all posts, including the ones which should not be visible.

    4. Click on the title of any of the posts.
    It properly redirects to /login/.

    In both cases it is displaying content that has been marked as accessible only to logged in users.

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  • Plugin Author Ultimate Member

    (@ultimatemember)

    Hi,

    At the moment the category and post restriction features only restrict the actual posts and not the archive page which lists the post. Quite a lot of people want users to see the title and excert (sort of as a teaser) but then not be able to view it.

    But I know other people such as yourself want total restriction so we hope to add in some more advanced controls for content restriction in a future update.

    Thanks

    Hi,

    I also needed this functionality as mentioned by @melodyz.

    Hopeful to have it in future.

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Ultimate Member

    (@ultimatemember)

    Thanks for your input on this ??

    Hello,

    Question has this feedback been implemented?

    I would love to have the ability to restrict all content.

    Thank you,

    Restricting access to the blog page and categories works for me. The issue I have is restricting access to archives. For example, even if there are no links to archives you can still access archives directly with mysite.com/2016/07/

    Can’t seem to figure a way around this.

    What seems to work for me is to set the home to a web page rather than the blog roll. When I set the home to “your latest blog post” is when the archives are accessible.

    If you try this let me know if it works for you. I want to figure it out too.

    No good. My site has always had a static front page.

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