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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 in versions up to and including 3.1.69. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on September 10, 2025, and was identified by security researcher Peter Thaleikis (NVD, Wordfence).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient escaping of the 'orderby' parameter and lack of proper SQL query preparation. The issue 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 Author-level access or higher to append additional SQL queries to existing ones, potentially enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the database (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
The plugin has been temporarily closed as of September 10, 2025, 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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