CVE-2026-9179 PUBLISHED

WP Forms Connector <= 1.8 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'order' Parameter

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 21.05.2026 Published: 24.06.2026 Updated: 24.06.2026

The WP Forms Connector plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'order' parameter of the /wp-json/wp/v3/post/list REST endpoint in versions up to and including 1.8. This is due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied 'order' parameter (read directly from $_GET['order'] into $shorting) and the lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query in the listPost() function, where the value is concatenated unquoted into the ORDER BY clause and executed via $wpdb->get_results() without $wpdb->prepare(). The endpoint is registered with permission_callback '__return_true' and performs only a broken header-based check that validates the supplied 'Username' corresponds to an administrator account while never verifying the 'Password'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor hancock11
Product WP Forms Connector
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.8 (incl.)

Credits

  • jamaal finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') CWE