🛡️ CVE-2026-7522

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-98 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Advanced Database Cleaner – Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to, and including, 4.1.0 via the 'template' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where .php file types can be uploaded and included.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-7522 is classified as CWE-98: PHP Remote File Inclusion. A PHP include path is taken from user input, so a remote or attacker-controlled file can be loaded and executed.

Affected software

CVE-2026-7522 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 20 May 2026 and last revised on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

docs.sigmaplugin.com
sigmaplugin.com
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-98
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-20
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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