What is CVE-2026-16949?

CVE-2026-16949 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Term Pages, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 5.8/10. Published 2026-08-10.

How severe is CVE-2026-16949?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Term Pages

CVE-2026-16949

The Term Pages WordPress plugin before 2.0.0 does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform SQL injection attacks.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2026-08-10 · last modified 2026-08-26.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (11.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-24.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 12th percentile — 11.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Term Pages — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/3e07356a-5ac8-4d9f-bef2-65aaecbf1419/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-16949?: CVE-2026-16949 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Term Pages, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 5.8/10. Published 2026-08-10.
How severe is CVE-2026-16949?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.8 out of 10.