WordPress · Wp Ticket · CVE-2026-9848
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
WP Ticket versions prior to 6.0.5
**Description**
The WP Ticket plugin for WordPress allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive information from the database. The issue occurs during unauthenticated front-end searches when the plugin hooks the `posts request` filter using the `wp ticket com posts request()` function, which subsequently calls `emd author search results()`. This function processes the `s` query parameter from `$query->query vars['s']` without using `$wpdb->prepare()` or proper escaping, concatenating the raw value into a SQL `LIKE` clause within a UNION sub-SELECT. This lack of sanitization enables the injection of additional SQL queries into existing database requests.
**Recommendations**
Update to a version later than 6.0.4.