CVE-2026-48874: WordPress GamiPress plugin <= 7.8.7 - SQL Injection vulnerability
Subscriber SQL Injection in GamiPress <= 7.8.7 versions.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 8.5
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- —
- Affected Products
- 1
HarborGuard Analysis
Synopsis
This is a SQL injection vulnerability in the GamiPress WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to and including 7.8.7. The flaw is reachable over the network and requires only a low-privilege account (subscriber-level) to exploit, with no additional user interaction needed. Successful exploitation gives an attacker read access to sensitive database contents and causes minor disruption to availability. HarborGuard tracks this advisory and will make a patched-image rebuild available the moment an upstream fix is published.
HarborGuard Coverage
Detection is available across every HarborGuard environment: the CVE is ingested from upstream feeds, including Patchstack, within minutes of publication and matched against customer images in registries and CI/CD pipelines. Coverage extends to custom-built images that bundle the GamiPress plugin.
AvailableHarborGuard can score this finding at CVSS 8.5 (HIGH) and weight it against each customer's per-environment compliance policy to determine urgency. Routing to the appropriate team inbox within each customer organization is available as part of the standard triage workflow.
AvailableBecause no fix version has been published upstream, HarborGuard re-checks the advisory on every ingest cycle and will make a patched-image rebuild available the moment an upstream fix is released. For customers with auto-remediation enabled, the rebuild, regression run, and PR against affected workloads will be triggered automatically at that point.
Pending upstreamExploit Conditions
- Network reachabilityRequired
The vulnerable endpoint is exposed over the network, so an attacker must be able to reach the WordPress installation via HTTP or HTTPS.
- AuthenticationRequired
A low-privilege account (subscriber-level or equivalent) is sufficient; no administrative access is needed to trigger the injection.
- Victim interactionNot required
The attacker can execute the injection directly without any action from another user or administrator.
- Attack complexityDetail
Exploit reliability is high and requires no special conditions, race windows, or memory layout knowledge.
Blast Radius
- Reads arbitrary database rows, including stored user credentials, session tokens, and private WordPress content.
- The scope of the injection crosses into database tables beyond the plugin's own data, due to the changed scope indicator in the CVSS vector.
- Causes minor disruption to database availability, which may produce intermittent errors for site visitors or administrators.
How HarborGuard Handles This
Available on HarborGuard: because no upstream patch exists for CVE-2026-48874 at this time, HarborGuard monitors the Patchstack advisory and the GamiPress release feed on every ingest cycle. As compensating controls, customers can apply network-policy isolation to restrict unauthenticated and low-privilege access paths to the affected WordPress instance, enforce egress filtering to limit what the database process can reach, and consider disabling subscriber-level registration if it is not required. For customers with auto-remediation enabled, a rebuilt image, regression-test run, and PR against affected workloads will be generated automatically the moment an upstream fix version is published.
- Ruben Garcia / GamiPress≤ 7.8.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L