afthemes vulnerabilities and threats

CVE-2026-42708 is a high severity SQL Injection vulnerability in the AF themes WP Post Author plugin, affecting versions from initial release up to 4.0.0. It allows an attacker with high privileges to perform blind SQL injection, potentially leading to data confidentiality breaches and partial denial of service. The vulnerability does not require user interaction but does require high privileges. No patch information is provided in the source data.

The WP Post Author – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Custom Avatars WordPress plugin contains a SQL Injection vulnerability in the 'wpma_metabox_authors_list' parameter in all versions up to and including 3.9.1. Authenticated users with author-level access or higher can exploit this by injecting SQL commands during post creation or editing, which are then executed when an admin views the post list screen. This vulnerability allows extraction of sensitive database information without impacting data integrity or availability.

Contributor SQL Injection in WP Post Author <= 3.9.1 versions.

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in AF themes WP Post Author wp-post-author allows SQL Injection.This issue affects WP Post Author: from n/a through <= 3.8.2.

The WP Post Author – Boost Your Blog&#039;s Engagement with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, Post Rating System, and Custom User Registration Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the linked_user_id parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 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 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.

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in AF themes WP Post Author allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Post Author: from n/a through 3.6.7.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in AF themes WP Post Author.This issue affects WP Post Author: from n/a through 3.6.4.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in AF themes WP Post Author.This issue affects WP Post Author: from n/a through 3.6.4.