Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-30590

High

Published: 24 March 2025

Published
24 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 8.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0005 14.9th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-30590 is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability, classified under CWE-89, affecting the WordPress plugin Flickr set slideshows (flickr-set-slideshows). The issue impacts all versions from n/a through 0.9 inclusive, as published on 2025-03-24.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L). It can be exploited by low-privileged authenticated users (PR:L) over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). Exploitation changes scope (S:C), enabling high confidentiality impact (C:H) such as unauthorized data access or extraction from the database, alongside low availability impact (A:L) and no integrity impact (I:N).

Mitigation details are provided in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/flickr-set-slideshows/vulnerability/wordpress-flickr-set-slideshows-0-9-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-89

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1213.006 Databases Collection
Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.
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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 exploitation and facilitates T1213.006 database data access/exfiltration.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References