CVE-2026-13596

critical

Description

The Participants Database WordPress plugin before 2.7.8.4 does not properly sanitize and escape a user-supplied parameter before using it in a SQL query, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform SQL injection attacks.

References

https://github.com/rechandra/wp2exp-2026

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e22227c8-506e-4188-a7a1-1952b41c47f5/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-01

Updated: 2026-08-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00262