User Access Manager <= 2.3.12 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-89.
Summary
The User Access Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Second-Order SQL Injection via the 'id' parameter of the wp_ajax_save-attachment-compat AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 2.3.12. This is due to insufficient validation on the objectId value stored in the saveAjaxAttachmentData() function and subsequent unparameterized concatenation in the addQueryExcludedPostFilter() function — the stored value is later retrieved from the database and used as an array key, then directly imploded into a SQL NOT IN() clause without integer casting or prepared statements. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
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-2026-15281
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9pfh-vh53-g498
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8ebfc52b-278c-49d5-9226-d28a59335d46?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-access-manager/tags/2.3.12/src/UserGroup/AbstractUserGroup.php#L147
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-access-manager/tags/2.3.12/src/Controller/Frontend/PostController.php#L275
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-access-manager/tags/2.3.12/src/Controller/Backend/PostObjectController.php#L103
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-access-manager/tags/2.3.12/src/UserGroup/AbstractUserGroup.php#L253
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3607011%40user-access-manager%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2FController%2FFrontend%2FPostController.php&old=3447009%40user-access-manager%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2FController%2FFrontend%2FPostController.php&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
More gm_alex vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-15088 User Access Manager <= 2.3.15 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read via 'uamgetfile' Parameter CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-16058 User Access Manager <= 2.3.18 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'tab_group_section' Parameter CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-15281 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-15281 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-9pfh-vh53-g498 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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