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CVE-2025-7036: Time-Based SQL Injection Vulnerability in CleverReach® WP Plugin

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Overview

A significant vulnerability has been identified in the CleverReach® WP Plugin for WordPress, which could potentially expose sensitive information and compromise systems. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-7036, is present in all versions up to 1.5.20 and poses a serious risk to any entity using the vulnerable versions of this plugin. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability, making it a critical issue that requires immediate attention.

Vulnerability Summary

CVE ID: CVE-2025-7036
Severity: High, CVSS: 7.5
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Impact: Potential system compromise or data leakage

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Product | Affected Versions

CleverReach® WP Plugin | Up to and including 1.5.20

How the Exploit Works

The exploit takes advantage of a time-based SQL Injection vulnerability in the CleverReach® WP plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability is due to insufficient escaping on a user-supplied parameter – ‘title’, and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. As a result, unauthenticated attackers can append additional SQL queries into already existing queries. These appended queries can then be used to extract sensitive information from the database, compromising the system and leading to potential data leakage.

Conceptual Example Code

Below is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. It demonstrates a malicious HTTP POST request that an attacker might use:

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=cr_form HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
title=validTitle'+UNION+SELECT+user_pass+FROM+wp_users+WHERE+ID=1--+

In this example, `validTitle’+UNION+SELECT+user_pass+FROM+wp_users+WHERE+ID=1–+` is a malicious payload that appends an SQL query to extract the password of the user with ID=1 from the WordPress database.

Mitigation

Users of the CleverReach® WP Plugin for WordPress are advised to update the plugin to the latest version which includes a patch for this vulnerability. In case the patch cannot be applied immediately, implementing a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can serve as temporary mitigation. Additionally, it’s crucial to regularly monitor and review system logs for any suspicious activity.

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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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