CVE-2026-104667: Animated Number Counters SQL injection vulnerability
medium 6.8 published 2026-10-07
- Affected versions
- older than 3.1
- Fixed in
- 3.1
- Latest version
- 3.2
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 6.8
- Active installs
- 2,000+
- Type
- SQL injection
What an attacker needs
- Access: None. No account or login is needed.
CVSS vector (score by CISA ADP): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
What to do now
- Update Animated Number Counters to 3.1 or newer (the latest is 3.2): Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Animated Number Counters issue.
With WP-CLI:
wp plugin get animated-number-counters --field=version. - If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.
The advisory
The Animated Number Counters WordPress plugin before 3.1 does not sanitise or escape a value stored by an Editor-level user before concatenating it into a SQL query that runs when any unauthenticated visitor renders a page containing the counter, leading to second-order SQL injection that can read arbitrary data including password hashes.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-104667 nvd.nist.gov
- WPScan advisory wpscan.com
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Where this data comes from
- CVE record, score and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Versions and install counts: wordpress.org/plugins/animated-number-counters (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- The summary, “what an attacker needs” and “what to do” sections are our plain-English reading of the record and the plugin's release history; the quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Email Daniel.