CVE-2026-12133 Missing authorization in JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more
Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary JoomSport group records due to missing capability checks in the AJAX handler.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-12133?
CVE-2026-12133 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in beardev JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more, published on 1 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Group Deletion in versions up to, and including, 5.7.8. This is due to a missing capability check in the joomsport_season_groupdel() AJAX handler, which only verifies a nonce before executing a DELETE query on attacker-supplied group IDs. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary JoomSport group records.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-12133?
How do I fix CVE-2026-12133?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-12133 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-12133 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-12133 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rqx7-vhrr-mqm2.