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my-category-order <= 2.8.7 — SQL Injection

CVE-2009-4748Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.8.7Update to 3.0.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium6.4
CVSS
6.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

my-category-order my-category-order

  1. Affected≤ 2.8.7
  2. Patched in3.0.1

Update to 3.0.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.8.7. Version 3.0.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under my-category-order.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.0.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch my-category-order to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to ManhLuat93.

SQL injection vulnerability in mycategoryorder.php in the My Category Order plugin 2.8.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the parentID parameter in an act_OrderCategories action to wp-admin/post-new.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.3Update to 4.4.2
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Same weakness (SQL Injection)

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
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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