{"id":"CVE-2026-17582","aliases":["EUVD-2026-59902","GHSA-vxq7-r2mm-g784"],"status":"published","title":"Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation \u003c= 9.1.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'description' Slide Field (Second-Order via Duplicate)","description":"The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 9.1.7 via the qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() function. Slide data (description, title, btn, btn2, image_link, custom, etc.) is stored safely via $wpdb-\u003eupdate() with %s placeholders in the qchero_save_image AJAX handler, but when an administrator triggers the 'heroduplicateslider' task, qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() re-reads every slide column and concatenates the raw values directly into an INSERT VALUES tuple that is then executed with $wpdb-\u003equery() — with no $wpdb-\u003eprepare(), esc_sql(), or _real_escape_string in between. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00483,"percentile":0.42129,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-89"],"published":"2026-08-16T05:27:30Z","modified":"2026-08-20T12:48:10Z","products":[{"vendor":"quantumcloud","product":"slider hero with video background, animation"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2b36621-3322-4631-b693-629c5084708b?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.6/qcld-slider-main.php#L392"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.7/qcld-slider-main.php#L392"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.7/qcld-slider-main.php#L1206"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.6/qcld-slider-main.php#L1206"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=\u0026old=3635315%40slider-hero\u0026new=3635315%40slider-hero"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17582"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxq7-r2mm-g784"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-17582","title":"Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation \u003c= 9.1.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'description' Slide Field (Second-Order via Duplicate)","description":"The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 9.1.7 via the qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() function. Slide data (description, title, btn, btn2, image_link, custom, etc.) is stored safely via $wpdb-\u003eupdate() with %s placeholders in the qchero_save_image AJAX handler, but when an administrator triggers the 'heroduplicateslider' task, qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() re-reads every slide column and concatenates the raw values directly into an INSERT VALUES tuple that is then executed with $wpdb-\u003equery() — with no $wpdb-\u003eprepare(), esc_sql(), or _real_escape_string in between. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-16T05:27:30.357Z","modified":"2026-08-18T19:21:26.741Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-89"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:19:55.176387Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-59902","description":"The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 9.1.7 via the qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() function. Slide data (description, title, btn, btn2, image_link, custom, etc.) is stored safely via $wpdb-\u003eupdate() with %s placeholders in the qchero_save_image AJAX handler, but when an administrator triggers the 'heroduplicateslider' task, qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() re-reads every slide column and concatenates the raw values directly into an INSERT VALUES tuple that is then executed with $wpdb-\u003equery() — with no $wpdb-\u003eprepare(), esc_sql(), or _real_escape_string in between. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-16T05:27:30Z","modified":"2026-08-18T19:21:26Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:01:46.060074Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-vxq7-r2mm-g784","title":"The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up...","description":"The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 9.1.7 via the qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() function. Slide data (description, title, btn, btn2, image_link, custom, etc.) is stored safely via $wpdb-\u003eupdate() with %s placeholders in the qchero_save_image AJAX handler, but when an administrator triggers the 'heroduplicateslider' task, qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() re-reads every slide column and concatenates the raw values directly into an INSERT VALUES tuple that is then executed with $wpdb-\u003equery() — with no $wpdb-\u003eprepare(), esc_sql(), or _real_escape_string in between. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-16T06:30:26Z","modified":"2026-08-16T06:30:37Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-89"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:10:31.619287Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-17582","description":"The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 9.1.7 via the qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() function. Slide data (description, title, btn, btn2, image_link, custom, etc.) is stored safely via $wpdb-\u003eupdate() with %s placeholders in the qchero_save_image AJAX handler, but when an administrator triggers the 'heroduplicateslider' task, qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() re-reads every slide column and concatenates the raw values directly into an INSERT VALUES tuple that is then executed with $wpdb-\u003equery() — with no $wpdb-\u003eprepare(), esc_sql(), or _real_escape_string in between. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-16T06:16:51.563Z","modified":"2026-08-20T12:48:10.287Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-89"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:38.647684Z"}]}}