Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-8685 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-8685 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-8685?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 20 May 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Infility Global up to, and including, 2.15.16.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-8685?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-8685 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-8685?
- Check whether you run Infility Global at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The Infility Global plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and a lack of SQL query preparation within the show_control_data::post_list() function. The vulnerability specifically affects the 'orderby' and 'order' parameters. This function is registered as an admin menu page requiring only 'read' capabilities, allowing authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to inject malicious SQL commands. An attacker can leverage this to append additional queries to existing database calls and extract sensitive information. The issue is present in all versions up to and including 2.15.16.
Affected products
- Infility Global Infility Global up to, and including, 2.15.16
Timeline
- 2026-05-20: advisory: NVD publication date
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/infility-global/trunk/widgets/show-control-data/show-control-data.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/infility-global/trunk/widgets/show-control-data/show-control-data.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/infility-global/trunk/widgets/show-control-data/show-control-data.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/infility-global/trunk/widgets/show-control-data/show-control-data.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1caeb5e0-9e4e-4c9e-a6e4-881fb81dc5f2?source=cve