WordPress REST API Security: A Practical Review Checklist
Review route ownership, permission callbacks, account roles, response fields, and regression evidence on authorized staging sites.
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Review REST routes against the site’s permission model.
Map namespaces to core features, plugins, themes, and custom maintainers. Use synthetic visitor, subscriber, editor, and administrator scenarios where relevant. The article examines permission callbacks, response fields, and retesting without assuming that a public content endpoint is automatically a defect.
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Use the companion guide to connect these articles to an assessment plan. For the next step, define the business question, obtain explicit scope approval, and prepare synthetic evidence that a reviewer can interpret. The resource library includes an offline checklist, a prompt pack, and an illustrative report to help organize that conversation.