Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 2.0.21 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution

8.3
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2026-54816
CVSS 8.3 (High)
Publicly Published June 17, 2026
Last Updated June 25, 2026
Researcher Nguyen Ba Khanh

Description

The Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.21. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to execute code on the server.

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Vulnerability Details for Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-ads (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.0.22, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.21
Patched Version
  • 2.0.22

Recent vulnerabilities in Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 2.0.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Ad Placements Update CVE-2025-12884 4.3 Supakiad S. (m3ez) February 18, 2026
2 Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 2.0.15 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection CVE-2025-12984 4.9 Supakiad S. (m3ez) January 16, 2026
3 Advanced Ads <= 2.0.14 - Authenticated (Editor+) Remote Code Execution via Shortcode CVE-2025-13592 7.2 NosleeP++ December 29, 2025
4 Advanced Ads <= 2.0.12 - Unauthenticated Limited Code Execution CVE-2025-10487 7.3 mikemyers October 31, 2025
5 Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 1.52.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Ad Widget CVE-2024-3952 6.4 wesley (wcraft) May 7, 2024
6 Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 1.52.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2024-2290 7.2 ST May 7, 2024
7 Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 1.31.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-32776 5.5 Muhammad Daffa September 28, 2022
8 Advanced Ads <= 1.17.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting 6.1 Antony Garand March 18, 2020

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