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CVE-2025-7826: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Testimonial plugin for WordPress (versions up to 2.3) contains a SQL Injection vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-7826. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on September 10, 2025, affecting the 'iNICtestimonial' shortcode functionality. The plugin has been temporarily closed since August 21, 2025, pending a full security review (NVD, WordPress Plugin).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and inadequate preparation of SQL queries in the 'iNICtestimonial' shortcode. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-89 (SQL Injection) (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to append additional SQL queries to existing ones, potentially enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the WordPress database (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been temporarily closed and removed from the WordPress plugin repository as of August 21, 2025, pending a complete security review. Users are advised to disable and remove the plugin until a patched version is released (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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