VulnCrest
Search
Create account
Report an incident
Radar sectionsDatabase
Check my site
WordPress plugin

Apocalypse Meow <= 22.1.0 — Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'type' Parameter

CVE-2026-3523Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤22.1.0Update to 23.0.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.9
CVSS
4.9
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Apocalypse Meow apocalypse-meow

  1. Affected≤ 22.1.0
  2. Patched in23.0.0

Update to 23.0.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 22.1.0. Version 23.0.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

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

What to do

  1. Update to version 23.0.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Apocalypse Meow to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Louis Deschanel (JeanJeanLeHaxor).

The Apocalypse Meow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'type' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 22.1.0. This is due to a flawed logical operator in the type validation check on line 261 of ajax.php — the condition uses `&&` (AND) instead of `||` (OR), causing the `in_array()` validation to be short-circuited and never evaluated for any non-empty type value. Combined with `stripslashes_deep()` being called on line 101 which removes `wp_magic_quotes()` protection, attacker-controlled single quotes pass through unescaped into the SQL query on line 298. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, 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 Apocalypse Meow

All 2
More vulnerabilities in Apocalypse Meow
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Critical9.821.2.7 - Authentication Bypass
21.1.3 – 21.2.7Update to 21.2.8
—

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 medium, CVSS 4.9

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

How we use these sources

Search VulnCrest Radar

Jump to

Are you sure?