CVE•Published 2026-08-29•Modified 2026-08-31•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16061
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.6
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS percentile
18
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 82% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Rest Routes WordPress plugin through 5.5.5 does not sanitize and validate a value taken from the URL of one of its public REST routes before using it in a SQL query, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform SQL injection attacks.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-29
Modified 2026-08-31
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-2026-16061Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16061Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16061Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16061GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16061" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (2)
CVE-2026-160612 repos