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CVE-2026-9179

HIGH
7.5
CVSS 3.1
Description
The WP Forms Connector plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'order' parameter of the /wp-json/wp/v3/post/list REST endpoint in versions up to and including 1.8. This is due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied 'order' parameter (read directly from $_GET['order'] into $shorting) and the lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query in the listPost() function, where the value is concatenated unquoted into the ORDER BY clause and executed via $wpdb->get_results() without $wpdb->prepare(). The endpoint is registered with permission_callback '__return_true' and performs only a broken header-based check that validates the supplied 'Username' corresponds to an administrator account while never verifying the 'Password'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-9179
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Wordfence
Reserved
2026-05-21 14:46 UTC
Published
2026-06-24 05:33 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-24 05:33 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-89
CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a…
Vendor / Product
hancock11 / WP Forms Connector
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

7.5 HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
hancock11 WP Forms Connector 0 ≤ 1.8
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-89 cna CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
7.5 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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