CVE-2026-7472Read More & Accordion <= 3.5.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'orderby' Parameter
- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Read More & Accordion plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'orderby' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.7. This is due to the use of esc_sql() without surrounding the value in quotes in an ORDER BY clause inside the getAllDataByLimit() and getAccordionAllDataByLimit() functions in ReadMoreData.php. The user-supplied $_GET['orderby'] value is only processed through esc_attr() (an HTML-escaping function) before being passed to these database functions, where esc_sql() is applied but the value is directly concatenated—unquoted—into the ORDER BY fragment of the SQL query before $wpdb->prepare() is called. Because esc_sql() only escapes quote characters and backslashes (which are irrelevant in an unquoted ORDER BY context), an attacker can inject arbitrary SQL expressions such as (SELECT SLEEP(5)) or conditional subqueries to perform time-based blind data extraction. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator-level access or above (or any role explicitly permitted access to the plugin's admin pages via the yrm-user-roles setting) to extract sensitive data from the database, including administrator credential hashes.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 21 days later
· 21 days 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)
- 0.45% · top 61% 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
edmonparker · Read More & Accordion
- affected ≤ 3.5.7
References
References9
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc7c7e21-fbd7-4451-bc7d-3d11db01a443?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/trunk/classes/ReadMoreData.php#L1522 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/tags/3.5.7/classes/ReadMoreData.php#L1522 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/trunk/views/readMorePagesView.php#L29 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/tags/3.5.7/views/readMorePagesView.php#L29 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/trunk/classes/ReadMoreData.php#L1537 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/tags/3.5.7/classes/ReadMoreData.php#L1537 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/trunk/views/accordionBuilder/list.php#L29 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expand-maker/tags/3.5.7/views/accordionBuilder/list.php#L29 (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-2026-31035 (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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