Fahad Mahmood Injection Guard Plugin up to 1.3.x Admin Page templates/dashboard.php cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Fahad Mahmood Injection Guard Plugin up to 1.3.x. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file templates/dashboard.php of the component Admin Page. Performing a manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-127216. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Fahad Mahmood Injection Guard Plugin up to 1.3.x. This affects an unknown functionality of the file templates/dashboard.php of the component Admin Page. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-352. The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Injection Guard plugin for WordPress before 1.4.0 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger password hash export by tricking a logged-in administrator into loading a crafted link, since the ig_settings admin page in templates/dashboard.php processes GET parameters without nonce verification. Attackers can exploit this to cause the plugin to write WooCommerce customer email hashes and password hashes to an unprotected file at wp-content/plugins/injection-guard/ab-hash.dat, which can then be downloaded without authentication to obtain customer password hashes for offline cracking.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordpress.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-127216 since 11/12/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

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Upgrading to version 1.4.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Fahad Mahmood

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• Injection Guard Plugin

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3

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