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CVE-2026-3523

The Apocalypse Meow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'type' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 22.1.0. This is due to a flawed logical operator in the type validation check on line 261 of ajax.php — the condition uses `&&` (AND) instead of `||` (OR), causing the `in_array()` validation to be short-circuited and never evaluated for any non-empty type value. Combined with `stripslashes_deep()` being called on line 101 which removes `wp_magic_quotes()` protec
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:6a1148c9e761abb3bc7d3125aa260304cc92c04445b6d70ba5c8f105df4720b4
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Apocalypse Meow","vendor":"blobfolio","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"22.1.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":4.9,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-89","description":"CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

10 source assertions
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/tags/22.1.0/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L101"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/tags/22.1.0/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L167"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/8
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/tags/22.1.0/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L261"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/tags/22.1.0/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L298"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/trunk/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L101"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/trunk/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L167"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/7
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/trunk/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L261"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/trunk/lib/blobfolio/wp/meow/ajax.php#L298"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3448958%40apocalypse-meow&new=3448958%40apocalypse-meow&sfp_email=&sfph_mail="}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/9
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1af9757-23e9-41d2-bbcd-15b0610b6538?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:754d62300b5759104b43c0557a7c3a839df679af1cd8bf283fff7ce3045b1147 · sha256:b6d4701e48c83374… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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