CVE-2026-60137

CRITICALPre-NVD 5.99.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than the CVSS score beside it.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-07-21), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. It is also listed on ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue (Source: ENISA EUVD). A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.9 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 5.9 MEDIUM under a secondary CVSS source. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, a secondary CVSS source
Exploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2026-45279 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • 2 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running an affected version — derived from Shodan data (© Shodan); a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedENISA EU KEV: Listed (Source: ENISA EUVD)EPSS PROB: 5.3%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: 2

A fix is available — apply it.

WordPress 6.8.x before 6.8.6, 6.9.x before 6.9.5, and 7.0.x before 7.0.2 does not properly sanitise the author__not_in parameter of WP_Query, which could allow SQL Injection when a plugin or theme passes untrusted input to the parameter.

Internet exposure · derived from Shodan data

2 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running a version that maps to CVE-2026-60137, in our KEV-Exposure radar’s Shodan-derived sample.

across 2 hosting countries (United Kingdom, United States)top: wordpress
See the KEV-Exposure radar →Derived from Shodan data. Shodan data is owned by Shodan, which holds its copyright (© Shodan). EchelonGraph claims no ownership of it or copyright in it. Aggregate, host-redacted.

How it counts: every 12 hours, when Shodan query credits allow, the radar runs one Shodan query per tracked product, reads up to 100 ip:port services per query, and keeps a service when its banner version matches a CISA-KEV or high-EPSS CVE; a service is dropped when neither a search nor a Shodan InternetDB port re-check has refreshed it for 21 days. A re-check that finds the port still listed by Shodan InternetDB refreshes the service without re-reading the banner, so a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open. A count is a banner-version inference over a sample, not an exploit test and not an internet-wide census, and the unit is a service, not a machine: a machine answering on two ports counts twice.

CVSS v3
5.9
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
67
EG Risk 67/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity59% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
5.3%
EPSS %ILE
92nd
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 5.9 MEDIUM.

EG Severity
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.a secondary CVSS source · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
5.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and ENISA EU KEV (Source: ENISA EUVD) and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

ENISA EU KEV: listed September 21, 2026, reported by ENISA.

Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement. How a listing moves the EG score

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/ · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-60137

Published

July 17, 2026

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Nov 3, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: github, cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-60137
Web page

WordPress 7.0.2 Release – WordPress News

https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Facilitated SQL injection vulnerability in the `author__not_in` parameter of `WP_Query` · Advisory · WordPress/wordpress-develop · GitHub

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-fpp7-x2x2-2mjf

Affected Packages

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
wordpress6.8.1+dfsg1-1, 6.8.3+dfsg1-0+deb13u1, 6.8.3+dfsg1-1
  • every version up to 6.8.6+dfsg1-0+deb13u1: fixed in 6.8.6+dfsg1-0+deb13u1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
wordpress6.8.1+dfsg1-1, 6.8.3+dfsg1-1, 6.9+dfsg1-1, 6.9.4+dfsg1-1, 7.0+dfsg1-1
  • every version up to 7.0.2+dfsg1-1: fixed in 7.0.2+dfsg1-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 29× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

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  12. 2026-10-25 13:46 UTCENISA EU KEV listingEUVD-2026-45279 · listed September 21, 2026 · reported by ENISA · Source: ENISA EUVD
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Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 Metasploit modules, 2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitauxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_wp2shell_sqli✓ verified
    Published Aug 25, 2026

    WordPress Core wp2shell Unauthenticated SQL Injection via REST Batch Route Confusion

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/http/wp_batch_desync_rce✓ verified
    Published Aug 7, 2026

    WordPress WP2Shell REST API Batch Route Confusion SQLi to RCE

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCColere-Sys/wp2shell-poc
    Published Jul 21, 2026

    Analysis and end-to-end implementation of the patched wordpress RCE vulnerability - CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCcodeb0ssx/Ultimate-wp2shell
    Published Jul 18, 2026

    wp2shell — Pre-authentication RCE in WordPress Core (CVE-2026-60137 + CVE-2026-63030). Chains an SQL injection in author__not_in with batch-route confusion for unauthenticated remote code execution on WP 6.9.0–6.9.4 / 7.0.0–7.0.1.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2026-60137?
CVE-2026-60137 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 17, 2026. WordPress 6.8.x before 6.8.6, 6.9.x before 6.9.5, and 7.0.x before 7.0.2 does not properly sanitise the author__not_in parameter of WP_Query, which could allow SQL Injection when a plugin or theme passes untrusted input to the parameter.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-60137 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-60137 was published on July 17, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-60137 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2026-60137 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 21, 2026, affecting WordPress Core. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it. ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue lists CVE-2026-60137 (added September 21, 2026, reported by ENISA): ENISA records its exploitation in the wild. Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-60137?
CVE-2026-60137 has a CVSS base score of 5.9 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending). EchelonGraph synthesises a secondary CVSS source + CISA KEV + ENISA's EU KEV (Source: ENISA EUVD) + FIRST EPSS into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2026-60137?
CVE-2026-60137 affects WordPress Core. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-60137?
A fix for CVE-2026-60137 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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