6.8Medium
CVE-2026-16959
The Media Library Assistant WordPress plugin before 3.40 does not validate a search parameter before concatenating it into a SQL query in one of its media-library query handlers, allowing users with the Author role to perform SQL injection.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an administrator login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 6.8 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-89
- Assigned by
- contact@wpscan.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-26
- Sources
- NVD