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CVE-2026-93904: Social Web Suite SQL injection vulnerability

high 7.5 plugin closed published 2026-10-29

Social Web Suite is closed on wordpress.org, so no fix is coming through WordPress updates

Social Web Suite 4.1.12 and older is affected by this SQL injection issue. The plugin was closed on wordpress.org on 2026-09-28, so sites running it will not be offered an update.

Affected versions
4.1.12 and older
Fixed in
unknown
Severity
High · CVSS 7.5
Active installs
closed
Type
SQL injection

What an attacker needs

CVSS vector (score by Wordfence): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What to do now

  1. Replace Social Web Suite. A closed plugin gets no updates through WordPress, so this hole stays open.
  2. Deactivate and delete it once you have a replacement (Plugins → Deactivate → Delete). Deactivating alone leaves its files on the server.
  3. Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Social Web Suite issue.
  4. If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.

The advisory

The Social Web Suite – Social Media Auto Post, Social Media Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the 'exclude_posts' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.12 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. The HMAC authentication gate protecting the endpoint is bypassable on any freshly activated installation where an administrator has not yet visited the settings page, because the secret_key option remains empty until lazily generated at that point, allowing an attacker to compute a valid token using hash_hmac('sha256', '', $timestamp) with any chosen timestamp.

Description from the CVE record, published by Wordfence (the CVE Numbering Authority), via the NVD entry for CVE-2026-93904.

References

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