Severity: High (CVSS 7.5)

Affected Systems: Tainacan Tainacan; Wordpress Wordpress

Overview

Tainacan

A high vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-6230 has been disclosed.

The Tainacan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'geoquery' parameter in all versions up to and including 1.0.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Risk

CVSS and CISA data indicate the following:

  • Review the OpenCVE and vendor advisory for exploit conditions and impact

OpenCVE Analysis

CVSS v4.0 N/ACVSS v3.1 7.5 HighCVSS v3.0 N/ACVSS v2 N/AKEV noEPSS noSSVC no

  • OpenCVE title: Tainacan <= 1.0.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'geoquery' REST API Parameter
  • Severity score: High (CVSS 7.5)
  • Weaknesses: CWE-89
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
Confidentiality ImpactHigh
Integrity ImpactNone
Availability ImpactNone
Attack VectorAttack ComplexityPrivileges RequiredUser InteractionScopeConfidentiality ImpactIntegrity ImpactAvailability Impact

Required Action

Review the OpenCVE detail page and linked vendor advisory, then apply the vendor-provided update or mitigation for the affected product.

Prioritize systems where the affected product is internet-facing, handles authentication, or runs with elevated privileges.

Verify Updates

Confirm whether your environment uses the affected product(s): Tainacan Tainacan; Wordpress Wordpress.

After remediation, verify the installed version against the fixed or unaffected versions listed by the vendor.

Temporary Mitigation (if patch is not available)

Use the mitigation published by the vendor. If no vendor mitigation is available, reduce exposure to the affected product, restrict access to trusted users or networks, and increase monitoring until an update can be applied.

Recommendation

  • Use OpenCVE, vendor, and source references as the source of truth for affected versions and remediation
  • Patch or mitigate affected products after confirming exposure in your environment
  • Monitor affected systems for unusual activity until remediation is complete

Support

If you require assistance, please contact our support team.

Immediate action is strongly recommended to protect your infrastructure.

Source Details

Customer Responsibility and Backups

Before applying updates, mitigations, or configuration changes, customers should take and verify current backups or snapshots of affected systems.

Customers are responsible for managing their servers, validating their own backups, testing changes, and ensuring they can restore services if an update or mitigation causes an issue.



Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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