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CVE-2026-60137

5.9, medium Known exploited

WordPress Core SQL Injection Vulnerability

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CVSS
5.9, medium medium CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
5% higher than 92.5% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
17 Jul 20263 months ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 21 Jul 2026. US federal agencies had to remediate by 4 Aug 2026, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

Description

WordPress 6.8.x before 6.8.6, 6.9.x before 6.9.5, and 7.0.x before 7.0.2 does not properly sanitise the author__not_in parameter of WP_Query, which could allow SQL Injection when a plugin or theme passes untrusted input to the parameter.

Details

Vendor
WordPress
Product
WordPress
Weakness
CWE-89 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
8 Oct 2026
Assigner
contact@wpscan.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References 3

Advisories 1

Other references 2

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other WordPress CVEs

Every WordPress CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2026-87902 WordPress Core Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability KEV EPSS 40% 8.1, high
  • CVE-2026-63030 WordPress Core Interpretation Conflict Vulnerability KEV EPSS 11% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2020-25213 WordPress File Manager Plugin Remote Code Execution Vulnerability KEV EPSS 97% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2020-11738 WordPress Snap Creek Duplicator Plugin File Download Vulnerability KEV EPSS 98% 7.5, high
  • CVE-2019-9978 WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability KEV EPSS 73% 6.1, medium

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.