CVE-2026-78568 — CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL Severity | NVD Vulnerability Record

ANALYST: BIVASH KUMAR NAYAK (CHIEF SECURITY ARCHITECT) • PUBLISHED: Tuesday, 25 August 2026
CVE-2026-78568 — CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL Severity | NVD Vulnerability Record
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CVE ID
CVE-2026-78568
CVSS Score
9.8
CRITICAL
CISA KEV
Not Listed
Not present in the verified catalog snapshot; this does not prove absence of exploitation
Urgent exposure review? — YES — CVSS ≥ 9.0 (Critical)

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🔍 CVE-2026-78568  |  ⚠ CVSS 9.8  |  📅 August 25, 2026  |  📂 Vulnerabilities  |  🛡 CYBERDUDEBIVASH®
CVE VULNERABILITY ADVISORY · CRITICAL
CDB-CTI-2026-7CCD7356011C · Generated 2026-08-25T10:50:15.033513Z
Executive Summary

The Total Donations plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.5 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. CVSS Score: 9.8 CWE: CWE-89

Decision: Validate relevance and exposure using the cited source and internal evidence before treating this record as an incident, confirmed compromise, or customer-specific finding.

Threat Classification and Evidence Status
Intelligence family
CVE Vulnerability Advisory
Technical severity
CRITICAL
Exploitation
Not confirmed by available evidence; not in verified KEV snapshot
Patch/remediation
Availability not established in the source record — verify vendor guidance
Verified Facts
Source type: CVE Vulnerability Advisory
Source publication time: 2026-08-25T09:17:36.590000
CVE: CVE-2026-78568
CVSS base score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-89
KEV catalog check: Not present in the successfully retrieved catalog snapshot; this does not prove absence of exploitation.
Technical Analysis

Vulnerability class: Sql Injection. Assessment: Active exploitation is not confirmed by the available evidence. This vulnerability is exploitable over the network, requiring no privileges and no user interaction. Prioritization must combine technical severity, exposure, asset criticality, and compensating controls.

Exposure and Remediation Decisions
P0 — Inventory: Confirm the affected product and version against authoritative vendor/NVD data; prioritize internet-facing and business-critical assets.
P0 — Remediation: Availability not established in the source record — verify vendor guidance
P1 — Compensating controls: Restrict exposure, enforce least privilege, and apply vendor-supported mitigations when immediate remediation is not possible.
P1 — Retrospective review: Search only the telemetry relevant to the affected component and validated vulnerability class; absence of alerts does not prove absence of exploitation.
Source Evidence Extract
CVE ID: CVE-2026-78568
Description: The Total Donations plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.5 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWEs: CWE-89

This extract is escaped and rendered from the ingested source record; generated analysis is not presented as a source fact.

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
Initial Access → Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190), conditional on an exposed web application.
Mappings are conditional analytical aids, not claims that the technique occurred. Promote a mapping to observed only after telemetry confirms the behavior.
Detection Engineering
DETECTION STATUS: SYNTAX_VALIDATED_EXPERIMENTAL

The source explicitly identifies SQL injection; the rule detects class-level probes, not successful exploitation.

Collect full reverse-proxy/WAF request targets, response status, response size, and application/database error telemetry.
Tune by application route and decode URL-encoded parameters before matching.
SIGMA YAML — SYNTAX VALIDATED · EXPERIMENTAL · ENVIRONMENT TUNING REQUIRED
title: Potential SQL Injection Probing Related to CVE-2026-78568
id: e36f3523-fc18-5c3e-91be-0ce1257db7b6
status: experimental
description: Detects common SQL injection metacharacter sequences in web request targets. Validate against application
  routes and WAF telemetry.
references:
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78568
author: CYBERDUDEBIVASH Sentinel APEX Detection Engineering
date: '2026-08-25'
logsource:
  category: webserver
detection:
  selection:
    cs-uri-query|contains:
    - ''' OR '
    - UNION SELECT
    - SLEEP(
    - WAITFOR DELAY
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Security testing
- Encoded legitimate query values
level: medium
tags:
- attack.initial-access
- attack.t1190
SENTINEL KQL — SYNTAX VALIDATED · EXPERIMENTAL · ENVIRONMENT TUNING REQUIRED
// Potential SQL Injection Probing Related to CVE-2026-78568
// report: CDB-CTI-2026-7CCD7356011C
// Placeholder table name -- bind to your ingested web/WAF request-log table (e.g. AzureDiagnostics with Category == 'ApplicationGatewayAccessLog', W3CIISLog, or a custom table) and confirm the request-URI column name before deployment.
WebRequestLogs
| where RequestUri has_any ("' OR ", "UNION SELECT", "SLEEP(", "WAITFOR DELAY")
| project TimeGenerated, RequestUri, ClientIP
References
AI-Native Automated Intelligence — Evidence-Graph Verified. Public reference draft — not a certified customer deliverable. Customer-specific action requires exposure validation and accountable human approval.
Role-Based Decisions
Vulnerability Manager: Track against cve vulnerability advisory intake. Exploitation status: Not confirmed by available evidence; not in verified KEV snapshot. Patch status: Availability not established in the source record — verify vendor guidance. — Prioritization reflects this record's own exploitation/patch evidence, not a fixed severity template.
Limitations: Reflects only this record's own reported exploitation and patch status; does not confirm whether the affected component is deployed in any specific environment.
SOC Manager: Review the detection guidance below before enabling any blocking action on it. — Detection maturity for this record is stated explicitly, not assumed production-ready.
Limitations: Detection guidance is evidence-scoped to this record; does not confirm the described technique has been observed in any specific environment.
Source Reliability & Corroboration

nvd

Source Reliability: B
Information Credibility: 3 (Possibly True)
Overall Analytical Confidence: MEDIUM

Reported by a single identified source; an independent second source has not been found (see the evidence ledger).

Threat Hunting — hunt-CDB-CTI-2026-7CCD7356011C-exposure

Hypothesis: If CVE-2026-78568 is deployed and reachable as described by CDB-CTI-2026-7CCD7356011C's evidence (CVE: CVE-2026-78568), telemetry consistent with the vulnerability class below may show attempted or successful exploitation.

Required telemetry: Collect full reverse-proxy/WAF request targets, response status, response size, and application/database error telemetry.
Required telemetry: Tune by application route and decode URL-encoded parameters before matching.
Pivot: Pivot on the affected component's inventoried version/build identifier, where available.
Pivot: Pivot on network paths and identities with reachability to the affected component.
Expected if true: Requests, processes, or events consistent with the vulnerability class described in this report's Technical Analysis, occurring after the CVE's public disclosure date and targeting the specific affected component.
Negative indicator: No matching telemetry for the affected component across the retrospective lookback window.
Negative indicator: The affected component is confirmed not deployed, or not reachable as this CVE describes.
False-positive risk: Legitimate administrative, diagnostic, or scanning activity against the same component can resemble exploitation attempts; corroborate with authentication context and known-good change records before escalating.

Success criteria: A specific, timestamped, corroborated telemetry match consistent with the vulnerability class, tied to the confirmed affected component.

Escalation criteria: Escalate to incident response only when a validated telemetry match is corroborated by at least one additional independent signal (e.g. an authentication anomaly or unexpected process lineage) -- a single matching log line alone is not sufficient grounds for escalation.

Confidence: MEDIUM — Maturity: PROPOSED (not independently confirmed by execution against real telemetry)

Limitations: Derived from the vulnerability class alone; does not confirm the affected component is actually deployed in the reader's environment, nor that matching telemetry represents genuine exploitation rather than benign activity.

Structured ATT&CK Assessment

T1190 — Exploit Public-Facing Application (initial-access)

STATUS: CONDITIONAL · CONFIDENCE: MEDIUM

Initial Access → Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190), conditional on an exposed web application.

Limitation: Conditional on the deployment/exploitation scenario described in the source record; not confirmed by telemetry.

Intelligence Gaps
Known Unknown: Whether an independent second source corroborates this record has not been assessed.
Would be resolved by: A second, independent source reporting the same underlying fact.
Indicators / Observables
CVE: CVE-2026-78568
Indicators are defanged for safe display (e.g. hxxp:// / [.]) -- refang before use in blocking or detection tooling.

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Intelligence source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78568 · CYBERDUDEBIVASH® SENTINEL APEX Evidence Engine v3.0
Provenance and Certification
Report IDCDB-CTI-2026-7CCD7356011C
Source systemnvd
Source published2026-08-25T09:17:36.590000
Source-record SHA-2567ccd7356011caa9415423af25a068d16cb8c72aca0e0e67cb216cad0b0646f2d
Generated UTC2026-08-25T10:50:15.095065Z
Production ModeAI-Native Automated Intelligence — Evidence-Graph Verified
CertificationPublic Intelligence Certification: FLASH_READY (automated evidence-graph certification — see Provenance for the source basis)