AdRotate Banner Manager <= 5.17.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Code Injection via 'banner' Shortcode Attribute
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.
Summary
The AdRotate Banner Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.17.7 via the 'banner' attribute of the adrotate shortcode. This is due to insufficient input validation and sanitization of the banner shortcode attribute before concatenation into a PHP code string wrapped in W3 Total Cache mfunc or Borlabs Cache fragment markers. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. This vulnerability requires W3 Total Cache or Borlabs Cache support to be enabled in AdRotate settings.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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-2026-12242
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5gg9-wwjm-frfp
References
Other 11
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f29b905c-57cf-4fb8-b6af-eb0c367cd3e4?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/trunk/adrotate-output.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/trunk/adrotate-output.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.5/adrotate-output.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/trunk/adrotate-output.php#L288
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.5/adrotate-output.php#L288
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.5/adrotate-output.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.4/adrotate-output.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.4/adrotate-output.php#L288
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.4/adrotate-output.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3582562/
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- TI-2022-01094 AdRotate – Ad manager & AdSense Ads <= 5.13.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Double Extension Arbitrary File Upload CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
Sources
- CVE-2026-12242 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-12242 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5gg9-wwjm-frfp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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