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CVE-2025-6970: Time-Based SQL Injection Vulnerability in Events Manager WordPress Plugin

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Overview

The CVE-2025-6970 vulnerability pertains to a time-based SQL Injection vulnerability found in the Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability specifically affects all versions up to, and including, 7.0.3, and poses a significant threat in terms of potential system compromise or data leakage.

Vulnerability Summary

CVE ID: CVE-2025-6970
Severity: High (7.5 CVSS)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Impact: Possible system compromise and data leakage.

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Product | Affected Versions

Events Manager Plugin for WordPress | Up to, and including, 7.0.3

How the Exploit Works

The exploit is conducted through time-based SQL Injection via the ‘orderby’ parameter. Due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied parameter and lack of proper preparation on the existing SQL query, unauthenticated attackers can append additional SQL queries into already existing ones. This allows the attacker to extract sensitive information from the database.

Conceptual Example Code

Below is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. This is a sample HTTP request with a malicious payload:

GET /wordpress/index.php?orderby=' OR SLEEP(5) -- HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3
Connection: close

In this example, if the server response is significantly delayed (by approximately 5 seconds, as indicated by the SLEEP(5) function), it indicates that the SQL injection was successful.

Mitigation Guidance

The recommended mitigation strategy for this vulnerability is to apply the vendor patch as soon as possible. In the interim, a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can be used to temporarily mitigate the risk.

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Disclaimer:

The information and code presented in this article are provided for educational and defensive cybersecurity purposes only. Any conceptual or pseudocode examples are simplified representations intended to raise awareness and promote secure development and system configuration practices.

Do not use this information to attempt unauthorized access or exploit vulnerabilities on systems that you do not own or have explicit permission to test.

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