Medium severity · published Aug 16, 2026
CVE-2026-17582
Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation <= 9.1.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'description' Slide Field (Second-Order via Duplicate)
4.9
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Slider Hero plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to second-order SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 9.1.7 via the qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() function. Slide data (description, title, btn, btn2, image_link, custom, etc.) is stored safely via $wpdb->update() with %s placeholders in the qchero_save_image AJAX handler, but when an administrator triggers the 'heroduplicateslider' task, qcld_sliderhero_duplicate() re-reads every slide column and concatenates the raw values directly into an INSERT VALUES tuple that is then executed with $wpdb->query() — with no $wpdb->prepare(), esc_sql(), or _real_escape_string in between. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SH
Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation · quantumcloud
through 9.1.7 · source: vendor
Affected product
SH
Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation
quantumcloud
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17582
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17582
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.6/qcld-slider-main.php#L1206
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.6/qcld-slider-main.php#L392
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.7/qcld-slider-main.php#L1206
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-hero/tags/9.1.7/qcld-slider-main.php#L392
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3635315%40slider-hero&new=3635315%40slider-hero
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2b36621-3322-4631-b693-629c5084708b?source=cve
