JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more: A security weakness
JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 5.7.8.
- Component
- JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more
- Plugin slug
joomsport-sports-league-results-management- Affected
- <= 5.7.8
- Safe version
> 5.7.8- Published
- Jul 02, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jul 02, 2026 and is one of 9 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more to a release after 5.7.8, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.8. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary season groups or modify existing group names, participants, and round-type options. Exploitation requires obtaining the joomsportajaxnonce, which is exposed on frontend pages that render a JoomSport shortcode.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2026-12134
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