The Animated Number Counters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the 'counterid' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0 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 editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This is a second-order SQL injection: the write path correctly uses $wpdb->prepare(), but that protection is not carried forward to the read path, where the retrieved value is concatenated unsanitized into unprepared queries in both a single-quoted string context and a bare numeric context.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00355.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
wpmart Animated Number Counters unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 3.0

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Workaround

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References
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L20 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L61 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/helper/functions.php#L312 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.7/settings/helper/number-counter-save.php#L8 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L20 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/counters/counter-01.php#L61 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/helper/functions.php#L312 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-number-counters/tags/2.8/settings/helper/number-counter-save.php#L8 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3603796/animated-number-counters/trunk/settings/counters/counter-01.php cve-icon cve-icon
https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-number-counters cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fed4591b-b7e3-4a55-a747-1c17f6c6f643?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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Description The Animated Number Counters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the 'counterid' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0 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 editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This is a second-order SQL injection: the write path correctly uses $wpdb->prepare(), but that protection is not carried forward to the read path, where the retrieved value is concatenated unsanitized into unprepared queries in both a single-quoted string context and a bare numeric context.
Title Animated Number Counters <= 3.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) SQL Injection via 'counterid' Parameter
Weaknesses CWE-89
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-13T13:16:47.378Z

Reserved: 2026-07-10T13:26:55.433Z

Link: CVE-2026-15399

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Updated: 2026-10-13T13:16:42.735Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-13T08:17:00.590

Modified: 2026-10-13T14:17:36.647

Link: CVE-2026-15399

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Updated: 2026-10-13T10:00:07Z

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