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CVE-2025-9451: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Smartcat Translator for WPML plugin for WordPress contains a time-based SQL Injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-9451) discovered by Peter Thaleikis and disclosed on September 10, 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 3.1.69. The plugin has been temporarily closed since September 10, 2025, pending a full security review (NVD, WordPress Plugin).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the 'orderby' parameter due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied input and inadequate preparation of SQL queries. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium) with a vector string of 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, Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access or higher to append additional SQL queries to existing queries, potentially enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the database (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been temporarily closed and is not available for download pending a full security review. Users are advised to disable the plugin until a patched version is released (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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