CVE-2026-9848
WP Ticket <= 6.0.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via WordPress Search 's' Parameter
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The WP Ticket plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the WordPress search query parameter (`s`) in versions up to, and including, 6.0.4 The plugin hooks WordPress's `posts_request` filter with `wp_ticket_com_posts_request()`, which calls `emd_author_search_results()` when the current request is an unauthenticated front-end search. That function reads `$query->query_vars['s']` — already wp_unslash()'d by `WP_Query::parse_query()`, so wp_magic_quotes protection has been stripped — and concatenates the raw value into a SQL `LIKE` clause inside a UNION sub-SELECT appended to the main query, with no `$wpdb->prepare()` or escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already-existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
emarket-design · Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk
- affected ≤ 6.0.4
References (7)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/98f16e3a-4ef3-43f9-86b2-2cf8e26f9c80?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-ticket/tags/6.0.4/includes/common-functions.php#L174 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-ticket/tags/6.0.4/includes/common-functions.php#L164 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-ticket/tags/6.0.4/includes/query-filters.php#L57 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-ticket/tags/6.0.4/includes/filter-functions.php#L22 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3565099/wp-ticket/trunk/includes/common-functions.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwp-ticket/tags/6.0.4&new_path=%2Fwp-ticket/tags/6.0.5 (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)
- 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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