Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-26886

High

Published: 15 March 2025

Published
15 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0006 17.8th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-26886 is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability, classified under CWE-89, in the PublishPress Authors WordPress plugin (publishpress-authors). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 4.7.3 inclusive. The vulnerability was published on 2025-03-15 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.6.

Exploitation is possible over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring high privileges (PR:H) but no user interaction (UI:N). The changed scope (S:C) enables high confidentiality impact (C:H), no integrity impact (I:N), and low availability impact (A:L), potentially allowing privileged attackers to extract sensitive data from the database.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/publishpress-authors/vulnerability/wordpress-publishpress-authors-plugin-4-7-3-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-89

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 for network-based exploitation to extract database data.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References