WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-7636 Deferred

Slider by Soliloquy – Responsive Image Slider for WordPress: Sensitive information exposure

Slider by Soliloquy – Responsive Image Slider for WordPress is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller. The published affected range is <= 2.8.1.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Slider by Soliloquy – Responsive Image Slider for WordPress
Plugin slug
soliloquy-lite
Affected
<= 2.8.1
Safe version
> 2.8.1
Published
May 22, 2026
Weakness
CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

This CVE was published May 22, 2026 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Slider by Soliloquy – Responsive Image Slider for WordPress to a release after 2.8.1, 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.

Source record

Technical description

The Slider by Soliloquy – Responsive Image Slider for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.1 via the map_meta_cap. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to extract draft slider metadata including unpublished media URLs, captions, and slider configuration authored by administrators or editors.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources