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WordPress Core SQL Injection Vulnerability

Vendor / product
WordPress — Core
Description (CISA)
WordPress Core contains a SQL injection vulnerability when a plugin or theme passes untrusted input to the parameter. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-63030 to allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain remote code execution on default WordPress installations.
Added to KEV
2026-07-21 — after the latest CTID mapping snapshot (2025-07-28)
Due date
2026-08-04
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.
Known ransomware use
Unknown
CWE
CWE-89
CISA notes
https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/
BOD 26-04: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk
Forensics Triage Requirements: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-60137
Elsewhere
cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON

ATT&CK techniques

No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.

The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2026-60137. This entry was added to KEV on 2026-07-21, after that snapshot; of the 283 entries added since, 0 have a mapping. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-89) — here is why — and does not guess.

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Sigma rules tagged with this CVE

3 rules in SigmaHQ carry the tag cve.2026-60137. These are shown as detection content for the CVE itself. Their ATT&CK tags are deliberately not rendered here: a rule author's tag is not an authoritative statement of how the vulnerability is exploited, and this page does not show techniques for unmapped entries.

Author: Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) · 2026-07-19 · logsource: category=webserver · a7c4e2f9-1b38-4d5c-9e72-3f4a5b6c7d8e
Detects the hardcoded "wp2shell" User-Agent string used by the wp2shell PoC tool during all phases of CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 exploitation.
CVE tags: CVE-2026-63030CVE-2026-60137
Author: Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) · 2026-07-19 · logsource: category=webserver · b8d5f301-2c49-4e6d-af83-4a5b6c7d8e9f
Detects exploitation attempts against the WordPress REST batch endpoint (CVE-2026-63030, CVE-2026-60137) using the wp2shell PoC tool. The tool sends POST requests to the batch endpoint via the ?rest_route=/batch/v1 query parameter, covering all attack phases from initial probe through SQL injection and pre-auth admin creation. A 207 response confirms the endpoint is active on the target.
CVE tags: CVE-2026-63030CVE-2026-60137
Author: Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) · 2026-07-19 · logsource: category=webserver · c9e6f412-3d50-4f7e-bf94-5b6c7d8e9f0a
Detects post-exploitation access to the wp2shell webshell plugin dropped after successful exploitation of CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137. After the pre-auth SQLi-to-admin bridge is established, the attacker can upload a malicious plugin (wp2shell) to the target WordPress instance. At this phase, the attacker accesses the webshell for command execution and persistence.
CVE tags: CVE-2026-63030CVE-2026-60137