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WP Data Access <= 4.3.1 — Admin+ SQL Injection

CVE-2021-24866Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.3.1Update to 5.0.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
High7.2
CVSS
7.2
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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:H Privileges required
High
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
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

WP Data Access – App Builder for Tables, Forms, Dashboards, Charts & Maps wp-data-access

  1. Affected≤ 4.3.1
  2. Patched in5.0.0

Update to 5.0.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.3.1. Version 5.0.0 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 Data Access – App Builder for Tables, Forms, Dashboards, Charts & Maps.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.0.0, 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 Data Access – App Builder for Tables, Forms, Dashboards, Charts & Maps to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to ZhongFu Su.

The WP Data Access WordPress plugin before 5.0.0 does not properly sanitise and escape the backup_date parameter before using it a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection issue and could allow arbitrary table deletion

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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≤5.5.90Update to 5.5.91
CVE-2026-121783
High8.1Incorrect Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'key' and 'val' Parameters on app/update, app/delete, app/insert
≤5.5.89Update to 5.5.90
CVE-2026-118267
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Image URL' Media-Type Column Renderer
≤5.5.89Update to 5.5.90
CVE-2026-118204
Medium5.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via 'engine' Parameter
≤5.5.90Update to 5.5.91
CVE-2026-121536
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via TEXT-family Column Value in Front-end Data Project Form
≤5.5.90Update to 5.5.91
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Same weakness (SQL Injection)

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Other SQL Injection vulnerabilities
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
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.2

  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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