CVE-2026-15399
What it is
The Animated Number Counters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the 'counterid' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This is a second-order SQL injection: the write path correctly uses $wpdb->prepare(), but that protection is not carried forward to the read path, where the retrieved value is concatenated unsanitized into unprepared queries in both a single-quoted string context and a bare numeric context.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with an admin-level account. High risk of data exposure.
- 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: 4.9 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-89 · SQL injection
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 4.9
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Is it in your code?
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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L61
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/helper/functions.php#L312
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/helper/number-counter-save.php#L8
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L61
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/helper/functions.php#L312
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/helper/number-counter-save.php#L8
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3603796/animated-number-counters/trunk/settings/counters/counter-01.php
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-number-counters
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fed4591b-b7e3-4a55-a747-1c17f6c6f643?source=cve