CVE-2026-60137
Medium 5.9 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- WordPress Core SQL Injection Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
Description
WordPress 6.8.x before 6.8.6, 6.9.x before 6.9.5, and 7.0.x before 7.0.2 does not properly sanitise the author__not_in parameter of WP_Query, which could allow SQL Injection when a plugin or theme passes untrusted input to the parameter.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
-
5.9 (MEDIUM)
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 5% (percentile: 93) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-89
Affected products
wordpress: wordpress
References
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-fpp7-x2… Vendor Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/ Release Notes
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026… US Government Resource