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CVE-2025-9198:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Wp cycle text announcement plugin for WordPress contains a SQL Injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-9198) discovered on October 3, 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 8.1. The vulnerability exists in the 'cycle-text' shortcode functionality due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and inadequate SQL query preparation (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-89 (SQL Injection) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.5 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs low privileges (PR:L), requires no user interaction (UI:N), has unchanged scope (S:U), can result in high confidentiality impact (C:H), but has no impact on integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N). The vulnerability vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N (NVD, Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to append additional SQL queries to existing queries, potentially enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the database (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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