CVE-2026-66666
Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Automattic WordPress allows…
- Risk score
- 46/100
- CVSS
- 6.9 v4.0
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 6 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Automattic WordPress allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects WordPress: from 7.1 through 7.1.2, from 7.0 through 7.0.6, from 6.9 through 6.9.9, from 6.8 through 6.8.10, from 6.7 through 6.7.9, and from 6.6 through 6.6.9.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.9 medium
References
- https://patchstack.com/articles/wordpress-7-1-3-security-release?_s_id=cve
- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/wordpress/wordpress/vulnerability/wordpress-wordpress-wordpress-7-1-2-sensitive-data-exposure-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
- https://wordpress.org/news/2026/10/wordpress-7-1-3-maintenance-and-security-release/
Original description
Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Automattic WordPress allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects WordPress: from 7.1 through 7.1.2, from 7.0 through 7.0.6, from 6.9 through 6.9.9, from 6.8 through 6.8.10, from 6.7 through 6.7.9, and from 6.6 through 6.6.9.
Last activity 6 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.