CVE•Published 2026-06-09•Modified 2026-06-09•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2016-20065
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.2
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Product Catalog 8 1.2 plugin for WordPress contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by injecting malicious code through the selectedCategory parameter. Attackers can submit POST requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the UpdateCategoryList action to extract sensitive database information from WordPress tables.
Timeline
Published 2026-06-09
Modified 2026-06-09
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2016-20065Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2016-20065Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2016-20065Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2016-20065GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2016-20065" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.