CVE-2026-104021 — WordPress
HIGHCVE-2026-104021 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.2) Code Injection vulnerability. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
The Fastcache by Host.it plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.4 via the `fastcache_settings[cache_cookie_exclude][]` parameter.…
Description
The Fastcache by Host.it plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.4 via the fastcache_settings[cache_cookie_exclude][] parameter. This is due to the plugin registering the cache_cookie_exclude setting via register_setting() without a sanitize_callback, while buildSiteHtaccessRules() applies only trim() to each cookie value before interpolating it directly into an Apache RewriteCond line — a normalization that strips surrounding whitespace but leaves embedded newlines intact, allowing an attacker to break out of the capture group and append arbitrary directives. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary Apache directives into the site's .htaccess file via file_put_contents(), enabling server-level configuration changes such as setting php_value auto_prepend_file to execute attacker-controlled PHP code on every request.
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2026-104021 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does.
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