adegans AdRotate Banner Manager Plugin up to 5.17.7 on WordPress Shortcode adrotate banner code injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in adegans AdRotate Banner Manager Plugin up to 5.17.7 on WordPress. This impacts the function adrotate of the component Shortcode Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument banner can lead to code injection. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-12242. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in adegans AdRotate Banner Manager Plugin up to 5.17.7 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function adrotate of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation of the argument banner with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The AdRotate Banner Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.17.7 via the 'banner' attribute of the adrotate shortcode. This is due to insufficient input validation and sanitization of the banner shortcode attribute before concatenation into a PHP code string wrapped in W3 Total Cache mfunc or Borlabs Cache fragment markers. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. This vulnerability requires W3 Total Cache or Borlabs Cache support to be enabled in AdRotate settings.

The weakness was presented by Osvaldo Noe Gonzalez Del Rio. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-12242 since 06/15/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/24/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• adegans

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• AdRotate Banner Manager Plugin

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• 5.17.0
• 5.17.1
• 5.17.2
• 5.17.3
• 5.17.4
• 5.17.5
• 5.17.6
• 5.17.7

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