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CVE CVE-2016-20065

CVE-2016-20065

WordPress

Severity: HIGH
CVSS: 8.2CVSS
Published: 2026-06-09
Last modified: 2026-06-09
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE: CWE-89

Description

Product Catalog 8 1.2 plugin for WordPress contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by injecting malicious code through the selectedCategory parameter. Attackers can submit POST requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the UpdateCategoryList action to extract sensitive database information from WordPress tables.

References

http://lenonleite.com.br/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/product-catalog-8/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40783
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/product-catalog-8-plugin-wordpress-sql-injection

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References