[mglasser]

bbpress 2.5.4 with WordPress 4.1

For a non-member of my web site and thus not logged in, they are able to see search results from bbPress from topics that are in forums marked as Private.

To be clear, I have all but one of my forums set as Private. The other one is set to Hidden. When I go to the forum front page I see a message “Oh bother! No forums were found here!”. Using the search bar above the forum (presumably default search) I am able to return results from content that is in the Private groups. The Hidden content is not returned. To make matters worse, not only are the topics from the Private forums returned in the search results, but the actual topic content is returned as well, so it is completely public.

[sodany]

I have exactly the same problem. I created a topic about it but no one answered… :/

[Robin W]

use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

and once set up, it will filter the search results