Critical (9.8) in wordpress wordpress. EPSS 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress mishandled % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, and thus did not properly address the possibility of plugins and themes enabling SQL injection attacks.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
9.8 critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)