CVE•Published 2026-08-01•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-13596
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
18
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 82% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Participants Database WordPress plugin before 2.7.8.4 does not properly sanitize and escape a user-supplied parameter before using it in a SQL query, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform SQL injection attacks.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-01
Modified 2026-08-26
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-2026-13596Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-13596Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-13596Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-13596GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-13596" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.