Vulnerability in GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress — CVE-2026-15439

What to do now

Update GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress to 7.9.8 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything up to and including 7.9.7

The GamiPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via the 'q' parameter of the wpForo integration AJAX selector (action gamipress_wpforo_get_posts) in versions up to, and including, 7.9.7. The value is passed only through $wpdb->esc_like() and interpolated directly into a single-quoted LIKE clause with no %s placeholder. Because esc_like() runs after WordPress core magic quotes, it doubles the injected backslash (\' -> \\'), which MySQL reads as one literal backslash followed by a live closing quote, allowing the attacker to break out of the string and inject boolean-based SQL. The wpForo plugin only needs to be active to register the callback; no wpForo vulnerability is used. Requires a Subscriber account, which can read the gamipress_admin nonce (exposed on every admin page, e.g. /wp-admin/profile.php). Note: the researcher's Simple:Press vectors (PoC 2 & 3) do not reproduce in current code, which uses $wpdb->prepare() with %s placeholders; only the wpForo selector is confirmed.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.3/integrations/wpforo/includes/functions.php#L24
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.3/integrations/wpforo/includes/functions.php#L40
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72ad7420-5793-496e-8607-2b346c7a3ce5?source=cve

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