CVE-2026-15399Animated Number Counters <= 3.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) SQL Injection via 'counterid' Parameter
- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Animated Number Counters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the 'counterid' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This is a second-order SQL injection: the write path correctly uses $wpdb->prepare(), but that protection is not carried forward to the read path, where the retrieved value is concatenated unsanitized into unprepared queries in both a single-quoted string context and a bare numeric context.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Affected products
wpmart · Animated Number Counters
- affected ≤ 3.0
References
References11
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fed4591b-b7e3-4a55-a747-1c17f6c6f643?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L61 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/helper/functions.php#L312 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/helper/number-counter-save.php#L8 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L20 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L61 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/helper/functions.php#L312 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/helper/number-counter-save.php#L8 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L20 (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-number-counters (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3603796/animated-number-counters/trunk/settings/counters/counter-01.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-98348 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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