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CVE Details
- Protection status: Protected by Atomicorp rules · About protection statuses
- CVE: CVE-2026-17576
- Name: InfiniteWP Client <= 1.13.9 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection via ‘iwp_get_comments_*’ Array Key
- Severity: Medium
- CVSS: 6.5 (v3.1) (Medium)
- CVSS version: 3.1
- CVSS source: Wordfence CNA
- CVSS vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Attack vector: Network
- Attack complexity: Low
- Privileges required: Low
- User interaction: None
- Scope: Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact: High
- Integrity impact: None
- Availability impact: None
- CWE: CWE-89
- Vendor: revmakx
- Vulnerable product: InfiniteWP Client
- CVE published: 2026-09-18
- CVE last modified: 2026-09-18
- Latest Update: 2026-09-18
- Selected Rule IDs observed: 340017 , 340144 , 340156 , 360147 , 360148 , 380122
- Matching rules: 6; rules with blocking actions: 6
- Would-block Rule IDs: 340017 , 340144 , 340156 , 360147 , 360148 , 380122
- Request surfaces inspected: JSON request data, Request URI, Request argument names, Request arguments, Request cookies, Request headers, SOAP request data, XML request data
Technical vulnerability details · CVSS assessments, exploit evidence & CPE data
CVSS assessments
CVSS v3.1 · security@wordfence.com
- Base score: 6.5
- Base severity: MEDIUM
- Exploitability subscore: 2.8
- Impact subscore: 3.6
- Assessment type: Primary
- Source identifier: security@wordfence.com
- Full vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Attack vector: Network
- Attack complexity: Low
- Privileges required: Low
- User interaction: None
- Scope: Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact: High
- Integrity impact: None
- Availability impact: None
- Exploit maturity: Not scored
Exploitability and impact subscores describe the vulnerability’s technical characteristics. Exploit maturity describes the reported state of exploitation; these are separate measures.
Assessment source: NVD record (opens in a new tab) · CVE record (opens in a new tab)
Vulnerable CPE configurations
No vulnerable CPE configurations are supplied in the current NVD record. See the affected-product information and vendor guidance on this page.
Vulnerability Description
The InfiniteWP Client plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the get_comments action in versions up to, and including, 1.13.9. This is due to insufficient escaping on the array-key names supplied in the JSON request body before use in a SQL statement: IWP_MMB_Comment::get_comments() calls extract() on $args (which silently skips keys that are not valid PHP variable names) but a second foreach($args as $checkbox => $checkbox_val) processes every key, strips the ‘iwp_get_comments_’ prefix with str_replace(), wraps the remainder in single quotes, and imploded it into an IN(…) clause that is executed via $wpdb->get_results() with no prepare(). Because the request body is read from php://input and JSON-decoded, wp_magic_quotes() never touches the data, so quote characters in keys pass through unaltered. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above (an administrator can register their own public key via add_site using the plugin’s WP-admin-generated activation_key and then issue signed get_comments requests), to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Recommended Actions
Maintain the observed Atomicorp protections. Keep your Atomicorp commercial rules current and confirm that the selected observed rules (340017 , 340144 , 340156 , 360147 , 360148 , 380122 ) have not been locally disabled. Atomicorp commercial rules are enabled by default. If you use Atomic WAF, review the applicable policy and rule settings.
Apply the vendor’s remediation. WAF protection is defense in depth and does not replace upgrading or following the affected vendor’s guidance.
- Affected versions: revmakx InfiniteWP Client versions through 1.13.9.
- No specific CNA/vendor solution or workaround is included in the current CVE Record (opens in a new tab) . Review the vendor’s security advisories and supported-release guidance before making changes.
Validate after changes. Confirm rule updates are current, review WAF events for the affected application, and test application behavior after vendor upgrades, mitigations, or local policy changes.
Research Notes
Atomicorp WAF protections are designed around attack techniques and exploit behaviors, allowing existing protections to apply across multiple vulnerabilities without requiring a unique rule for every CVE.
Public Vulnerability References
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CVE Record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE authority reference: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/addons/comments/comments.class.php#L57 (opens in a new tab)
- CVE authority reference: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/addons/comments/comments.class.php#L71 (opens in a new tab)
- CVE authority reference: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/addons/comments/comments.class.php#L80 (opens in a new tab)
- CVE authority reference: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/init.php#L131 (opens in a new tab)
- CVE authority reference: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/iwp-client/tags/1.13.6/init.php#L1651 (opens in a new tab)
- CVE authority reference: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3655042%40iwp-client&new=3655042%40iwp-client (opens in a new tab)
- CVE authority reference: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05c50442-570b-45cf-816a-c7a5b712ba21?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
Test or Research Source
- Source: Atomicorp AI Research Framework
- Tags: cve, derived, sqli, waf-probe
Research Note Context
This research note documents exploit-technique analysis associated with this vulnerability and references Atomicorp WAF protections observed during engineering review, testing, or validation activities.
Atomicorp security controls are generally designed to identify and mitigate attack techniques and exploit behaviors rather than individual CVE identifiers. As a result, protections developed for one vulnerability may also apply to related attack variants and future vulnerabilities using similar techniques.
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