{"id":18996891,"date":"2026-08-19T05:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/uploaded-documents-security-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:01:37","slug":"uploaded-documents-security-risk","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/uploaded-documents-security-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Uploaded documents security risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We use participant database plugin to let users upload identifying documents. We notice that anyone with the URL to uploaded documents are able to access them. Is there anyway to add security to this &#8211; not displaying the URL or restricting access only to those who uploaded these files? We couldn\u2019t find any setting in the participant database plugin setting to this effect anywhere. Please help as this is a top concern of ours.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18996891","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18996891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18996891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18996891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}