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WP Symposium <= 15.8 — Unauthenticated SQL Injection

CVE-2015-6522Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <15.8Update to 15.8 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< 15.8
  2. Patched in15.8

Update to 15.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 15.8. Version 15.8 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 15.8, 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.

SQL injection vulnerability in the WP Symposium plugin before 15.8 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the size parameter to get_album_item.php.

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
—
Medium5.3SQL Injection
<15.4Update to 15.4
CVE-2015-3325
Critical9.8Arbitrary File Upload
≤14.11Update to 15.1
CVE-2014-10021
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
≤14.10Update to 14.11
CVE-2014-8809

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.
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