crafium OptinCraft Plugin up to 1.2.0 on WordPress order_by sql injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in crafium OptinCraft Plugin up to 1.2.0 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation of the argument order_by results in sql injection. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-8978. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in crafium OptinCraft Plugin up to 1.2.0 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument order_by with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The OptinCraft – Drag & Drop Optins & Popup Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the 'order_by' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

The weakness was disclosed by Yousef Alraddadi. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-8978 since 05/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-34955). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• crafium

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• OptinCraft Plugin

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2.0

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