How can a guest view the “Pending Review” Post?

The best way to do that is with this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/public-post-preview/

OF course you can dig into it’s source code to try to implement the core functionality if you prefer, but I use that plugin on several active sites with success.

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