WP Directory Kit <= 1.5.9 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via 'display_name' Profile Field (Second-Order)
CVE-2026-96653Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.5.9Update to 1.6.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
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?
WP Directory Kit wpdirectorykit
- Affected≤ 1.5.9
- Patched in1.6.0
Update to 1.6.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.5.9. Version 1.6.0 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 Directory Kit.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.6.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WP Directory Kit to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tarcísio Luchesi De Almeida Silva (Poystick).
The WP Directory Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via 'display_name' Profile Field (Second-Order) in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.9 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This is a second-order injection: a Subscriber stores a display_name containing a single quote via their own profile, which WordPress preserves verbatim; the payload is then triggered when WdkCachedUserEditor::update_listings_user_editor() re-reads that stored value and passes it unsanitized to the SQL sink.
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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| Medium4.9 | Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection <1.6.3Update to 1.6.3 | CVE-2026-118420 | |
| High7.5 | Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'idfield' Parameter ≤1.6.0Update to 1.6.1 | CVE-2026-109197 | |
| Medium6.5 | Authenticated (Custom+) SQL Injection via 'data_fields_list' Parameter ≤1.5.4Update to 1.5.5 | CVE-2026-16596 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Listing Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.5.7Update to 1.5.8 | CVE-2026-16591 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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- 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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