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Read More & Accordion EUVDEUVD-2026-31035

| CVE-2026-7472 MEDIUM
SQL Injection (CWE-89)
2026-05-20 Wordfence GHSA-xf5m-hv2x-626c
4.9
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Wordfence
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain or compromise WordPress admin credentials
  2. Delivery
    Authenticate to WordPress dashboard
  3. Exploit
    Navigate to plugin admin page with orderby GET parameter
  4. Execution
    Inject time-delay SQL payload (e.g., SLEEP(5)) to confirm blind injection
  5. Persist
    Execute conditional subqueries to enumerate database schema
  6. Impact
    Extract wp_users credential hashes

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Parameterized queries, prepared statements
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Persistence

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an authenticated session with WordPress administrator-level privileges (PR:H per CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N). Additionally, the attacker must have access to the specific plugin admin pages that render the vulnerable views (readMorePagesView.php or accordionBuilder/list.php), which pass the orderby GET parameter to the affected functions. Sites that have configured the yrm-user-roles plugin setting to grant plugin admin page access to roles below administrator (e.g., editor or contributor) effectively lower the privilege requirement beyond what the CVSS PR:H rating reflects. Exploitation is not possible by unauthenticated users or standard subscriber/customer roles on default plugin configurations. The vulnerability is network-reachable (AV:N) and requires no user interaction beyond the attacker's own authenticated session.

Impact

The CVSS 4.9 medium score is primarily driven by the PR:H (high privilege) component of the vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, which requires the attacker to already hold administrator-level access in WordPress. This significantly constrains real-world risk: a WordPress administrator already has nearly full site control via the dashboard, so the marginal gain from this vulnerability is primarily access to raw database credential hashes rather than an initial foothold. That said, the C:H rating is meaningful if the attacker's goal is lateral movement - extracting hashed credentials of other administrator accounts or harvesting data from custom database tables. The attack complexity is low (AC:L) and requires no user interaction (UI:N), so execution is straightforward once access conditions are met. No EPSS score was provided in the source data; given the PR:H constraint and absence of KEV or POC indicators, this vulnerability is lower priority than unauthenticated or low-privilege SQLi. However, sites that have configured the yrm-user-roles setting to grant plugin admin access to lower-privileged roles effectively lower the privilege bar below administrator, which could meaningfully raise practical risk beyond what the CVSS vector captures.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who has obtained WordPress administrator credentials - whether through phishing, credential stuffing, or password reuse - authenticates to the WordPress dashboard and navigates to a plugin admin page that invokes getAllDataByLimit() with the GET parameter orderby. The attacker submits a crafted value such as (SELECT SLEEP(5)) and observes a five-second response delay confirming blind injection, then iterates conditional subqueries to extract the wp_users table, recovering administrator password hashes for offline cracking. No public POC code has been identified at time of analysis, but the technique is a well-documented blind SQLi pattern requiring no specialized tooling beyond standard tools like sqlmap.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.0% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – May 20, 2026

Time-based blind SQL injection in the Read More & Accordion WordPress plugin (slug: expand-maker) through version 3.5.7 enables authenticated administrators to exfiltrate arbitrary database contents, including administrator password hashes, by manipulating the orderby GET parameter. The flaw exists in two data-retrieval functions in ReadMoreData.php, where user input bypasses effective sanitization and is concatenated unquoted into an ORDER BY SQL clause. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, though the high-confidentiality CVSS impact (C:H) reflects genuine data-exposure potential.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis - the available references point only to the vulnerable 3.5.7 tagged release and trunk code, with no fix commit or updated release confirmed. Site owners should monitor the WordPress plugin repository for an updated release and apply it immediately upon availability. As a compensating control, administrators should audit the yrm-user-roles plugin setting and restrict it to the minimum required roles, reducing the number of accounts that can reach the vulnerable admin pages; note that this does not eliminate risk for sites with multiple administrator accounts. Additionally, a web application firewall (WAF) rule blocking ORDER BY injection patterns (e.g., SQL keywords or time-delay functions in the orderby parameter) can reduce exposure, though WAF rules can be bypassed and should not substitute for a code-level fix. If the plugin is not actively required, temporarily deactivating it eliminates the attack surface entirely with no functional trade-off for non-users.

Affected VersionsENISA

Read More & Accordion 0 ≤3.5.7

Affected Packages

euvd read_more_accordion no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected plugin (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:edmonparker:read_more_&_accordion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) registers admin-facing pages that pass the raw $_GET['orderby'] value through esc_attr() - an HTML-encoding function designed for attribute output, not SQL safety - before handing it to getAllDataByLimit() and getAccordionAllDataByLimit() in ReadMoreData.php (lines 1522 and 1537 of the 3.5.7 tag). Inside those functions, esc_sql() is applied, but because the value is concatenated directly and unquoted into the ORDER BY fragment before $wpdb->prepare() is invoked, the escaping is entirely ineffective: esc_sql() only strips quotes and backslashes, which are irrelevant in a bare ORDER BY context. This is the canonical CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in SQL Commands) pattern where a developer confuses an HTML-escaping helper with a SQL-safe quoting mechanism. The structural fix is to whitelist acceptable column names rather than attempt escaping on a free-form ORDER BY token.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Wordfence) PRIMARY 4.9 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence) · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

The Read More & Accordion plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'orderby' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.7. This is due to the use of esc_sql() without surrounding the value in quotes in an ORDER BY clause inside the getAllDataByLimit() and getAccordionAllDataByLimit() functions in ReadMoreData.php. The user-supplied $_GET['orderby'] value is only processed through esc_attr() (an HTML-escaping function) before being passed to these database functions, where esc_sql() is applied but the value is directly concatenated-unquoted-into the ORDER BY fragment of the SQL query before $wpdb->prepare() is called. Because esc_sql() only escapes quote characters and backslashes (which are irrelevant in an unquoted ORDER BY context), an attacker can inject arbitrary SQL expressions such as (SELECT SLEEP(5)) or conditional subqueries to perform time-based blind data extraction. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator-level access or above (or any role explicitly permitted access to the plugin's admin pages via the yrm-user-roles setting) to extract sensitive data from the database, including administrator credential hashes.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.0%
Top 88% exploitable
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.0%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

24
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +24
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

SQL injection exploits the way applications construct database queries by mixing user input directly into SQL statements.

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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