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CVE-2026-60137.

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known exploited WordPress Core SQL Injection Vulnerability

Vendor / product: WordPress - Core
Listed by CISA: 2026-07-21
Federal fix deadline: 2026-08-04 (3 days away)
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.

Scores

CVSS 3.1: 5.9 medium CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS: 79% estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (higher than 100% of all CVEs)
Weakness class: CWE-89

ATT&CK techniques

inferred from weakness class no curated mapping exists for this CVE; these are the techniques typically seen with CWE-89 vulnerabilities

ReconnaissanceResource DevelopmentInitial Access ExecutionPersistencePrivilege Escalation StealthDefense ImpairmentCredential AccessDiscoveryLateral MovementCollection Command and ControlExfiltrationImpact

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Inferred from CWE-89.

T1190 on attack.mitre.org

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

Execution

Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.

Inferred from CWE-89.

T1059 on attack.mitre.org

T1055 Process Injection

Privilege EscalationStealth

Adversaries may inject code into processes in order to evade process-based defenses as well as possibly elevate privileges.

Inferred from CWE-89.

T1055 on attack.mitre.org

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

Inferred from CWE-89.

T1068 on attack.mitre.org

T1005 Data from Local System

Collection

Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.

Inferred from CWE-89.

T1005 on attack.mitre.org

T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Command and Control

Adversaries may transfer tools or other files from an external system into a compromised environment.

Inferred from CWE-89.

T1105 on attack.mitre.org

See these techniques on the full ATT&CK matrix.

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.

Published: 2026-07-17
Last modified: 2026-07-29
NVD status: Analyzed

References

Covered in Decrypted

Two small bugs in WordPress core added up to a takeover that needed no login (2026-07-21)

CVSS measures how bad exploitation would be; EPSS estimates how likely exploitation is within 30 days; the CISA listing means it is already happening. Read them together: a CVSS 9.8 with EPSS 0.04% is usually less urgent than a CVSS 7.2 on the exploited list. Data: NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV; detail is cached for a week, scores for a day. ATT&CK techniques come from the CTID KEV mappings project where a curated mapping exists, otherwise they are inferred from the weakness class and labelled as such. ATT&CK is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. © 2026 The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation.