CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2026-12242
High (8.8). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The AdRotate Banner Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.17.7 via the 'banner' attribute of the adrotate shortcode. This is due to insufficient input validation and sanitization of the banner shortcode attribute before concatenation into a PHP code string wrapped in W3 Total Cache mfunc or Borlabs Cache fragment markers. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. This vulnerability requires W3 Total Cache or Borlabs Cache support to be enabled in AdRotate settings.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.4/adrotate-output.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.4/adrotate-output.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.4/adrotate-output.php#L288
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.5/adrotate-output.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adrotate/tags/5.17.5/adrotate-output.php#L276