WordPress Events Manager SQL Injection via Unsanitized User Input

The Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.1 does not sanitise and escape a user-controlled value before using it in a SQL statement, allowing users with a subscriber account and above to perform SQL injection attacks and tamper with booking consent records belonging to other people.

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Analysis

This vulnerability is a SQL injection flaw (CWE-89) in the Events Manager WordPress plugin versions before 7.4.1 that fails to properly sanitize and escape user-controlled input before incorporating it into SQL queries. The critical issue is that any user with subscriber-level privileges or higher can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary SQL commands, specifically targeting the modification of booking consent records belonging to other users. This affects WordPress installations relying on this popular events management plugin, potentially exposing sensitive booking data and consent information across multi-user environments.

Casky's 322 matched skills leverage Claude AI with extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns associated with MITRE techniques TA0001 (Reconnaissance) and TA0043 (Persistence). Practitioners using Casky would identify SQL injection attempts through detection of: (1) anomalous SQL syntax patterns in request payloads targeting booking-related parameters, (2) unusual database query structures indicating unsanitized input concatenation, and (3) privilege escalation patterns where subscriber accounts access or modify records outside their authorization scope. The platform's mapping to MITRE ATT&CK helps security teams recognize how attackers leverage initial access through low-privilege accounts (TA0001) to establish persistent database manipulation (TA0043), with findings highlighting suspicious query execution chains and unauthorized consent record modifications that deviate from normal application behavior.

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322 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

These skills use Claude AI's reasoning model to surface findings in the same attack categories as CVE-2026-18057.

Abuse of Public-Facing API: Mobile API Abuse

mobile security · low

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abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access

red teaming · high

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abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc

red teaming · high

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0001 TA0043

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