CVE-2026-11354
What it is
The Participants Database plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.8.3 via the 'id' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite arbitrary participant records by numeric ID and redirect the private_id-bearing record-access link to an attacker-controlled email address, granting full read and edit access to the victim's stored personally identifiable information including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and any other fields collected in the participant database. An attacker can harvest a valid nonce with a plain unauthenticated GET request to any page rendering the public signup or record form, then POST action=update with an arbitrary id value to overwrite any record; chaining a subsequent action=retrieve then delivers the private-access link to the attacker-controlled mailbox.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.3 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-862 · Missing authorization
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Is it in your code?
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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/participants-database/tags/2.7.8.3/classes/PDb_Shortcode.php#L1267
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/participants-database/tags/2.7.8.3/classes/PDb_submission/main_query/update_query.php#L57
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/participants-database/tags/2.7.8.3/participants-database.php#L1671
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/participants-database/tags/2.7.8.3/participants-database.php#L2437
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3606851%40participants-database&new=3606851%40participants-database
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff1b8d09-974a-4735-8b63-15084412090d?source=cve