WordPress 6.8.1

WordPress 6.8.1 has 8 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2025 and 2026; all 8 are fixed as of August 2026. Their average CVSS score is 5.4, and the most serious one scores 7.5 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high. 2026 was the busiest year with 6 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 4 of the records (50%). Other recurring categories include Improper Restriction Of XML External Entity Reference, Missing Authorization.

Every one of the 8 issues recorded for WordPress 6.8.1 has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

7 independent researchers contributed these findings, most of them (2) reported by sibwtf.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

5.4/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 7.5CVE-2026-60137

WordPress Core 6.8 - 7.0.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via author__not_in Parameter

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Vulnerability Records

8 records


2026-07-17 00:00	WordPress Core 6.8 - 7.0.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via author__not_in Parameter WordPress 6.8.1 6.8 – < 7.0.2 · 3 branches	`CVE-2026-60137`	7.5 High	Tin Pham (TF1T)	Yes
2026-03-10 00:00	WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Navigation Menu Items WordPress 6.8.1 6.8 – 6.9.1 · 2 branches	`N/A`	4.4 Medium	sibwtf	Yes
2026-03-10 00:00	WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Unauthenticated Blind Server-Side Request Forgery via XML-RPC Pingback Discovery WordPress 6.8.1 6.8 – 6.9.1 · 2 branches	`N/A`	5.8 Medium	sibwtf	Yes
2026-03-10 00:00	WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Sensitive Information Disclosure via query-attachments AJAX Endpoint WordPress 6.8.1 6.8 – 6.9.1 · 2 branches	`N/A`	4.3 Medium	Vitaly Simonovich	Yes
2026-03-10 00:00	WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Cross-Site Scripting via Client-Side Template Override in Admin Area WordPress 6.8.1 6.8 – 6.9.1 · 2 branches	`N/A`	4.4 Medium	Asaf Mozes	Yes
2026-03-10 00:00	WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Authenticated (Author+) XML External Entity Injection via getID3 Library Media Upload WordPress 6.8.1 6.8 – 6.9.1 · 2 branches	`N/A`	6.5 Medium	Youssef Achtatal	Yes
2025-09-22 00:00	WordPress <= 6.8.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure WordPress 6.8.1 4.7 – 6.8.2 · 22 branches	`CVE-2025-58246`	4.3 Medium	Abu Hurayra (HurayraIIT)	Yes
2025-09-22 00:00	WordPress <= 6.8.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting WordPress 6.8.1 4.7 – 6.8.2 · 23 branches	`CVE-2025-58674`	6.4 Medium	SavPhill (Savphill)	Yes

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