PublishPress Capabilities <= 1.5.8 — Authenticated SQL Injection
c48091fc-c11d-4753-9763-e1face3723fePublished · Updated Action summary
Affected: <1.5.9Update to 1.5.9 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat 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:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-89 SQL Injection
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
PublishPress Capabilities: User Role Access Control, Admin Area Permissions capability-manager-enhanced
- Affected< 1.5.9
- Patched in1.5.9
Update to 1.5.9 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 1.5.9. Version 1.5.9 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under PublishPress Capabilities: User Role Access Control, Admin Area Permissions.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.5.9, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch PublishPress Capabilities: User Role Access Control, Admin Area Permissions to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.
The PublishPress Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via an unknown parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.5.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for role-editing-capable attackers 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
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤2.50.1Update to 2.51.0 | CVE-2026-94487 | |
| High7.2 | Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation to Fresh-Install Default Capability Grant ≤2.50.0Update to 2.50.1 | CVE-2026-75927 | |
| Medium4.7 | Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation ≤2.45.0Update to 2.50.0 | CVE-2026-28183 | |
| Medium4.7 | Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation ≤2.45.0Update to 2.50.0 | CVE-2026-48197 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.31.0Update to 2.32.0 | CVE-2026-32394 |
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤2.50.1Update to 2.51.0
- High7.2Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation to Fresh-Install Default Capability Grant
≤2.50.0Update to 2.50.1
- Medium4.7Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation
≤2.45.0Update to 2.50.0
- Medium4.7Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation
≤2.45.0Update to 2.50.0
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤2.31.0Update to 2.32.0
Same weakness (SQL Injection)
All SQL Injection| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup
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- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder
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- 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
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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.