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Admin Notices Manager EUVDEUVD-2026-89879

| CVE-2026-96827 HIGH
SQL Injection (CWE-89)
2026-09-30 Patchstack GHSA-76gp-v38g-46gm
7.6
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Patchstack
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Authenticate as WordPress Administrator
  2. Exploit
    Submit crafted input to vulnerable plugin parameter
  3. Execution
    Injected SQL executes against database
  4. Impact
    Extract sensitive database contents

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

Requires an authenticated WordPress Administrator account (PR:H) on a site running the Melapress Admin Notices Manager plugin at version 1.6.0 or earlier; the attacker submits malicious input to a plugin-handled parameter that is concatenated into a SQL query. No user interaction (UI:N) and network-reachable (AV:N) once authenticated. The dominant limiting factor is the administrator privilege prerequisite: the actor must already hold top-tier site access, which sharply narrows the realistic threat population to multi-admin, delegated-role, or managed-hosting scenarios, or a scenario where a lower-privilege foothold is escalated to admin first.

Impact

This is a high-CVSS score (7.6) that reflects low real-world urgency once the CVSS vector is read carefully. The vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L requires PR:H - an already-authenticated WordPress Administrator, the highest privilege tier in a standard install. An attacker who is already an administrator can typically export or alter the database through legitimate means, so the marginal risk added by this SQL injection is limited; it is primarily relevant in multi-admin, managed-hosting, or delegated-role environments where separation of duties or database-layer isolation matters, or where a lower-privilege compromise is chained upward. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code were provided, so exploitation is not confirmed or predicted to be widespread. No SSVC decision data was supplied. The one contrast worth noting: the vendor set S:C (scope change) and C:H, which elevates the score, but the PR:H prerequisite is the dominant limiting factor and keeps genuine priority low-to-medium. No conflicting signals between the description and the vector - both point to an administrator-only SQL injection.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A user holding a WordPress Administrator account on a site running Admin Notices Manager <= 1.6.0 submits a crafted value to an unsanitized parameter handled by the plugin, which is concatenated into a SQL query. The injected SQL executes against the WordPress database, allowing extraction of sensitive data (e.g., user records, password hashes, secrets) beyond the plugin's intended scope. No public proof-of-concept was identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires an existing high-privilege account.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.4% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026

SQL injection in the Melapress Admin Notices Manager WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 1.6.0) allows an authenticated WordPress Administrator to inject arbitrary SQL into a plugin-handled parameter, giving the attacker read access to data outside the plugin's own tables. The assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L scores 7.6, but the PR:H requirement means exploitation presupposes top-tier site access; the practical threat model is multi-admin sites, delegated or agency-managed installs, or an attacker who has already escalated a lower-privilege foothold to administrator. No public exploit code has been identified and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; no EPSS score was supplied with the available intelligence, so no exploit-probability estimate is asserted here.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released patch was identified in the provided intelligence for this CVE, and absence of that data is not confirmation that no fix exists - the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/admin-notices-manager/vulnerability/wordpress-admin-notices-manager-plugin-1-6-0-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve should be checked directly and the plugin's WordPress.org page monitored for a release newer than 1.6.0, with the expectation that the corrected version will be explicitly stated there. Because the prerequisite is an Administrator session, the most effective compensating controls are privilege-side and should be applied immediately while awaiting confirmation of a fixed version: enumerate and minimize Administrator accounts and remove any stale, shared, or unused admin logins (side effect: none, and it reduces blast radius for every admin-only flaw on the site); audit and tighten delegated roles and agency/managed-hosting access so that no unnecessary account holds Administrator capabilities (side effect: may interrupt legitimate workflows for site managers, so schedule the change); and deactivate and delete Admin Notices Manager entirely if its notice-management functionality is not in active use (side effect: loss of that plugin's UI feature, acceptable where the risk outweighs it). If the plugin must remain active, deploy a WAF or reverse-proxy rule that inspects and blocks SQL meta-characters in requests routed to the plugin's admin-ajax and admin-page endpoints, accepting that such rules are signature-based and may produce false positives on legitimate admin traffic, and enable auditing/logging of admin-level requests to those endpoints to catch extraction attempts. Finally, treat full Administrator compromise as equivalent to database disclosure for incident-scoping purposes: if an untrusted party has held admin access on an affected site, rotate database credentials and secrets stored in wp-config and review for exfiltration rather than relying on the injection being read-only.

Affected VersionsENISA

Admin Notices Manager n/a ≤1.6.0

Affected Packages

euvd admin_notices_manager no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability is a classic SQL injection (CWE-89) in a WordPress plugin, arising when a request parameter handled by the plugin is concatenated into a SQL statement rather than passed through parameterized queries such as $wpdb->prepare(). The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:melapress:admin_notices_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* identifies the affected component as the Melapress-published Admin Notices Manager plugin for WordPress; the wildcard version component in that CPE does not itself encode a version ceiling, so the binding version boundary comes from the vendor/coordinator statement of "<= 1.6.0". WordPress plugin code of this type typically executes inside admin-ajax.php or an admin-page handler, which is consistent with the CVSS vector requiring PR:H - the endpoint is reachable over the network (AV:N) with no user interaction (UI:N) but only for a caller holding Administrator capabilities, and a capability check (current_user_can) is evidently not sufficient to prevent the injection. The scope-changed metric (S:C) reflects that a successful injection escapes the plugin's security authority and can read data owned by WordPress core or other plugins, while the C:H/I:N/A:L split indicates the demonstrated impact is confidentiality-dominant - bulk database disclosure - with no integrity impact asserted and only partial availability impact. This is consistent with a read-oriented injection (for example a UNION- or boolean-based extraction path) rather than one demonstrated to permit arbitrary writes or code execution.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Patchstack) PRIMARY 7.6 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L
vuln.today AI 7.6 HIGH

Administrator-only exploitation means PR:H; network-reachable with no user interaction (AV:N/UI:N); SQLi reads database data (C:H) with limited availability impact (A:L) and scope change to the DB backend, matching vendor.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).

CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack

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

DescriptionCVE.org

Administrator SQL Injection in Admin Notices Manager <= 1.6.0 versions.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

The Melapress Admin Notices Manager WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 1.6.0) contains a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability that allows an authenticated administrator to read data outside the plugin's tables. Organizations with multi-admin or agency-managed WordPress sites face increased risk of data exposure if an administrator account is compromised or malicious. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the absence of a vendor patch requires immediate mitigation to protect sensitive database contents.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Restrict administrator access to trusted personnel, enforce multi-factor authentication, disable the plugin if not essential, implement WAF rules to block SQL injection attempts, monitor database activity for unauthorized queries, and apply least privilege principles to database users. No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 70% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche WordPress admin-notices plugin; vendor reputable but this plugin narrowly used
Data Quality
3 sources
Confidence: Low

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 HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.4%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
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
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

38
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +38
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.

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