CVE-2025-30788
Published: 27 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-30788 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the WordPress plugin Eli EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup ( Elisqlreports). The flaw enables SQL Injection and affects all versions up to and including 5.25.08.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), such as tricking an authenticated user into visiting a malicious site or clicking a forged link. Exploitation changes scope (S:C), resulting in high confidentiality impact (C:H) with low integrity (I:N) and availability (A:L) effects, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries and potentially extract sensitive database information from affected WordPress sites.
The Patchstack advisory provides details on mitigation: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/elisqlreports/vulnerability/wordpress-ez-sql-reports-shortcode-widget-and-db-backup-plugin-5-25-08-csrf-to-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
CSRF to SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of web applications for arbitrary SQL queries and database data extraction.