How can I get unpublished drafts in my plugin? I'm building a widget where I want to list all unpublished drafts (made by users without access to publish live changes), but I can't figure out how to get them.
Depending on what you want to do with them you can request them using craft.entries but you'll probably need to change the status to pending.

If this doesn't work you'll need to fetch them through a custom controller/service that goes in and fetches the entry model and returns a list that fit you criteria.

Hope this helps.