CVE-2025-5287

published 2025-05-28

CVE-2025-5287: The Likes and Dislikes Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to…

Priority P1 80 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

ITW EXPLOIT VulnCheck KEV

The Likes and Dislikes Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
erumfaham	likes_and_dislikes_plugin	<= 1.0.0	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

other post parameter SQL Injection (unauthenticated, appended queries)↗

• → Monitor for unauthenticated POST/GET requests to WordPress AJAX endpoints (admin-ajax.php) containing a 'post' parameter with SQL metacharacters or stacked/appended query syntax, targeting sites running Likes and Dislikes Plugin <= 1.0.0. ↗
• → Flag any unauthenticated database extraction attempts (e.g., UNION SELECT, information_schema queries) originating from the 'post' parameter in WordPress plugin requests, as exploitation requires no authentication. ↗

• · All versions up to and including 1.0.0 of the Likes and Dislikes Plugin for WordPress are affected; no patched version is referenced in the available sources. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

vulncheck 7.5 HIGH

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