About: Rich Rice

Its not a hole, its how search queries work, if you go through all the options there is a setting that deals with this. By activating this setting(s) you can prevent that from happening.

Alternative View Protection ( optional / experimental )

s2Member protects Categories, Tags, Posts, Pages, Files, URIs & more. BUT, even with all of those security restrictions, it’s still possible for protected content excerpts to be seen through XML feeds, in search results generated by WordPress®; and/or ( depending on your theme ), possibly in other Archive views; which might include: Posts by Author, Posts by Date, a list of featured items formulated by your theme, OR even through other widgets/plugins adding functionality to your site. ~ We refer to all of these collectively, as “Alternative Views”.

Using the options below, you can tell s2Member to protect some ( or all ) of these “Alternative Views”, by filtering WordPress® database queries for you. s2Member can automatically hide protected content that is NOT available to the current User/Member. In other words, s2Member is capable of pre-filtering ALL database queries, so that excerpts of protected content will not be allowed to slip through. This is marked “experimental”, because we’re still testing this against MANY widget/plugin/theme combinations. Please report all bugs.