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CVE-2025-8416: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-8416 affects the Product Filter by WBW plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 2.9.7. The vulnerability was discovered on October 24, 2025, and publicly disclosed on October 25, 2025. This SQL injection vulnerability exists in the 'filtersDataBackend' parameter and affects unauthenticated users (NVD CVE, Wordfence Intel).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-89 (SQL Injection) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (High). The issue stems from insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and inadequate preparation of SQL queries in the 'filtersDataBackend' parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries to existing ones (NVD CVE, Rapid7 DB).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive information from the database by injecting malicious SQL queries into existing database queries (NVD CVE).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.9.8 of the Product Filter by WBW plugin. Users are strongly advised to update to this version immediately. The update includes security fixes specifically addressing the SQL injection vulnerability (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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