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CVE-2026-60137

medium CVSS 5.9 Exploited in the wild EPSS 5.3%

WordPress 6.8.x before 6.8.6, 6.9.x before 6.9.5, and 7.0.x before 7.0.2 does not properly sanitise the author__not_in parameter of WP_Query, which could allow SQL Injection when a plugin or theme passes untrusted input to the parameter.

Versions it affects

Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-60137 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
Medium
CVSS base score
5.9 out of 10
Known exploited
Yes: listed in CISA's catalogue of vulnerabilities exploited in the wild
EPSS
5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-89
Published
2026-07-17

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