Read More & Accordion <= 3.5.7 — Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'orderby' Parameter
CVE-2026-7472Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.5.7No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- Medium4.9
- CVSS
- 4.9CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-89 SQL Injection
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Read More & Accordion expand-maker
- Affected≤ 3.5.7
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.5.7. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Read More & Accordion.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Read More & Accordion to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to BIMA IKHSAN.
The Read More & Accordion plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'orderby' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.7. This is due to the use of esc_sql() without surrounding the value in quotes in an ORDER BY clause inside the getAllDataByLimit() and getAccordionAllDataByLimit() functions in ReadMoreData.php. The user-supplied $_GET['orderby'] value is only processed through esc_attr() (an HTML-escaping function) before being passed to these database functions, where esc_sql() is applied but the value is directly concatenated—unquoted—into the ORDER BY fragment of the SQL query before $wpdb->prepare() is called. Because esc_sql() only escapes quote characters and backslashes (which are irrelevant in an unquoted ORDER BY context), an attacker can inject arbitrary SQL expressions such as (SELECT SLEEP(5)) or conditional subqueries to perform time-based blind data extraction. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator-level access or above (or any role explicitly permitted access to the plugin's admin pages via the yrm-user-roles setting) to extract sensitive data from the database, including administrator credential hashes.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | Privilege Escalation via importData ≤3.5.7No patch available | CVE-2026-7467 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤3.5.5.1Update to 3.5.6 | CVE-2025-64247 | |
| High7.5 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Local File Inclusion ≤3.4.7Update to 3.4.8 | CVE-2025-0810 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary 'Read More' Post Deletion ≤3.4.2Update to 3.4.3 | CVE-2024-13639 | |
| High7.2 | Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection ≤3.2.6.1Update to 3.2.7 | CVE-2023-3392 |
- High8.8Privilege Escalation via importData
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- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
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- High7.5Cross-Site Request Forgery to Local File Inclusion
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- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary 'Read More' Post Deletion
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- High7.2Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection
≤3.2.6.1Update to 3.2.7
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.9
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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