Title: RSS Feed Security
Last modified: April 5, 2022

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# RSS Feed Security

 *  Resolved [bobjgarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobjgarrett/)
 * (@bobjgarrett)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-security/)
 * It seems your plugin, while preventing access to particularly categories via 
   web pages, is not protecting them from being shared via the RSS feed.
    browsing
   to mysite.com/feed results in the display of an XML file of category supposedly
   hidden from general view. Is that right or have i overlooked something.

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 *  Thread Starter [bobjgarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobjgarrett/)
 * (@bobjgarrett)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-security/#post-15528680)
 * Further testing also shows that while the text content of posts for private categories
   are hidden on normal web pages, the post titles and images included are shown.
   So the plugin is not hiding private categories from public view.
 *  Plugin Support [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-security/#post-15530848)
 * Hi, are you also protecting the content of the page or post? As far as I know
   when you enable content protection in posts it also protects the RSS feed. So
   when you go to yoursite.com/feed you will not see any blog posts displayed.
 * Kind regards.
 *  Thread Starter [bobjgarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobjgarrett/)
 * (@bobjgarrett)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-security/#post-15531601)
 * I thought the same but have now verified this on two completely separate sites.
   Protecting a category from general view does not prevent the RSS feed from showing
   the content.
    While Firefox does not actually render the XML content it does 
   download it like a file, while Chrome actually renders it. So “private” posts
   appear still available to the public in terms of their title and images with 
   the full content also available via the XML.
 *  Plugin Support [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-security/#post-15532076)
 * Hi, I just completed a test in my dev site and it works for me. I was not able
   to see the content even when I type the following URL **yoursite.com/feed/** 
   on the browser. I can confirm this works for me.
 * You might like to check the following documentation.
 * [https://mbrsolution.com/wordpress/simple-membership-plugin-category-protection.php](https://mbrsolution.com/wordpress/simple-membership-plugin-category-protection.php)
 * Let me know if the information above helps you.
 * Kind regards.
 *  Thread Starter [bobjgarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobjgarrett/)
 * (@bobjgarrett)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-security/#post-15532834)
 * Thanks for your help on this. I have read through your documentation again and
   it is as I thought it was supposed to operate. So my two sites should be okay,
   though I do think that the titles of private posts should not be shown because
   these might give something away – a private post should be entirely private!
 * I have now created a test site with your plugin and another which I feared might
   clash and it does operate correctly (though the private post titles do appear)
   so there is something strange about the other sites. I will have to look through
   their setup again carefully. Have you any suggestions as to why posts might be
   private within pages but not within feeds?
 *  Plugin Support [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-security/#post-15534511)
 * Hi,
 * > Have you any suggestions as to why posts might be private within pages but 
   > not within feeds?
 * This might have something to do with the theme you are using. Try testing one
   of WordPress default themes like Twenty Twenty.
 * Kind regards.

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