WordPress Core 6.9 - 7.0.1 - Remote Code Execution via REST API Batch Request Route Confusion

9.8
Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation
CVE CVE-2026-63030
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published July 17, 2026
Last Updated July 23, 2026
Researcher Adam Kues

Description

WordPress Core is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions 6.9 to 7.0.1 via the REST API batch request endpoint (/wp-json/batch/v1). This is due to a route/validation desynchronization that allows a validated sub-request to be dispatched to an unintended callback, bypassing the allow_batch restriction, with attacker-controlled parameters and the target route's input sanitization bypassed, which can be chained with SQL Injection. This may make it possible for attackers to execute code on the server.

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Vulnerability Details for WordPress

Software Type Core
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 6.9.5, 7.0.2
Affected Versions
  • 6.9 - 6.9.5 (exclusive)
  • 7.0 - 7.0.2 (exclusive)
Patched Versions
  • 6.9.5
  • 7.0.2

Recent vulnerabilities in WordPress

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 WordPress Core 6.8 - 7.0.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via author__not_in Parameter CVE-2026-60137 7.5 Tin Pham (TF1T), Trong Pham (dtro), haongo July 17, 2026
2 WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Cross-Site Scripting via Client-Side Template Override in Admin Area 4.4 Asaf Mozes March 10, 2026
3 WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Navigation Menu Items 4.4 sibwtf March 10, 2026
4 WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Unauthenticated Blind Server-Side Request Forgery via XML-RPC Pingback Discovery 5.8 sibwtf March 10, 2026
5 WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Authenticated (Author+) XML External Entity Injection via getID3 Library Media Upload 6.5 Youssef Achtatal March 10, 2026
6 WordPress 6.9 - 6.9.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Note Creation via REST API CVE-2026-3906 4.3 kaminuma March 10, 2026
7 WordPress <= 6.9.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Sensitive Information Disclosure via query-attachments AJAX Endpoint 4.3 Vitaly Simonovich March 10, 2026
8 WordPress <= 6.8.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2025-58674 6.4 SavPhill (Savphill) September 22, 2025
9 WordPress <= 6.8.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure CVE-2025-58246 4.3 Abu Hurayra (HurayraIIT) September 22, 2025
10 WordPress Core < 6.5.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via HTML API CVE-2024-6307 6.4 Alex Concha, Dennis Snell, Grzegorz Ziółkowski, Aaron Jorbin June 24, 2024

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