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AdRotate Banner Manager <= 5.17.7 — Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Code Injection via 'banner' Shortcode Attribute

CVE-2026-12242Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.17.7Update to 5.17.8 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

AdRotate Banner Manager adrotate

  1. Affected≤ 5.17.7
  2. Patched in5.17.8

Update to 5.17.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.17.7. Version 5.17.8 and later are not affected by this issue.

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

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.17.8, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch AdRotate Banner Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Osvaldo Noe Gonzalez Del Rio (Os).

The AdRotate Banner Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.17.7 via the 'banner' attribute of the adrotate shortcode. This is due to insufficient input validation and sanitization of the banner shortcode attribute before concatenation into a PHP code string wrapped in W3 Total Cache mfunc or Borlabs Cache fragment markers. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. This vulnerability requires W3 Total Cache or Borlabs Cache support to be enabled in AdRotate settings.

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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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  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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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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