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WP Symposium <= 12.11 — SQL Injections

45163d7f-59c9-4bce-95a7-5b56e1cc018bPublished · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤12.11Update to 12.12 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP Symposium wp-symposium

  1. Affected≤ 12.11
  2. Patched in12.12

Update to 12.12 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 12.11. Version 12.12 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Symposium.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 12.12, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP Symposium to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Charlie Eriksen.

The WP Symposium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to various SQL Injections in versions up to, and including, 12.09 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. 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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in WP Symposium

All 12
More vulnerabilities in WP Symposium
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤15.8.1Update to 15.9
CVE-2015-9414
High7.2Blind SQL Injection
<15.8Update to 15.8
—
Critical9.8Unauthenticated SQL Injection
<15.8Update to 15.8
CVE-2015-6522
Medium5.3SQL Injection
<15.4Update to 15.4
CVE-2015-3325
Critical9.8Arbitrary File Upload
≤14.11Update to 15.1
CVE-2014-10021

Same weakness (SQL Injection)

All SQL Injection
Other SQL Injection vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup≤5.25.25Update to 5.26.45
CVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder≤1.0.2Update to 1.1
CVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System≤3.3.9Update to 3.4.0
CVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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