This vulnerability is highly dangerous and expected to become exploited.
Due to the specific nature of this vulnerability, all legitimate and illegitimate requests are blocked to cover all scenarios.
This could allow a malicious actor to directly interact with your database, including but not limited to stealing information.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.
Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule to block any attacks until you have updated to a patched version.
Update to version 7.38 or later to resolve the vulnerability. Patchstack users can turn on auto-update for vulnerable plugins only.
Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers
19 Feb, 2026
Published by Patchstack
19 Feb, 2026