Missing authorization in beardev JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.8. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary season groups or modify existing group names, participants, and round-type options. Exploitation requires obtaining the joomsportajaxnonce, which is exposed on frontend pages that render a JoomSport shortcode.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-12134
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h398-fp2w-9mpg
References
Other 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a00997d4-f242-4d49-8542-0738efa66222?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/tags/5.7.8/includes/posts/joomsport-post-season.php#L230
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/trunk/includes/posts/joomsport-post-season.php#L230
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/trunk/includes/posts/joomsport-post-season.php#L22
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/tags/5.7.8/includes/posts/joomsport-post-season.php#L22
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/trunk/includes/joomsport-shortcodes.php#L473
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/tags/5.7.8/includes/joomsport-shortcodes.php#L473
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3581673%40joomsport-sports-league-results-management&new=3581673%40joomsport-sports-league-results-management&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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Sources
- CVE-2026-12134 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-12134 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-h398-fp2w-9mpg · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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