{"id":82465,"date":"2025-10-10T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:35:30","slug":"cve-2025-10726-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-wprecovery-plugin-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-10726-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-wprecovery-plugin-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-10726: SQL Injection Vulnerability in WPRecovery Plugin for WordPress<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CVE-2025-10726 is a serious cybersecurity vulnerability that affects the WPRecovery plugin for WordPress, which is widely used across many websites for data recovery. The flaw opens the door for unauthenticated attackers to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities present in the system. This vulnerability not only exposes sensitive information, but also allows attackers to manipulate server files, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-55743-serious-vulnerability-in-unopim-allows-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"89706\">potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage. It is crucial for organizations and individuals using this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9018-unauthorized-modification-and-data-loss-vulnerability-in-time-tracker-plugin-for-wordpress\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"90064\">plugin to understand the risk posed by this vulnerability<\/a> and take immediate mitigation measures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-10726<br \/>\nSeverity: Critical (9.1 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-12367-system-compromise-via-sensitive-information-exposure-in-vega-master-software\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"89865\">System compromise<\/a>, potential data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1829721945\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>WPRecovery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8565-unauthorized-access-and-arbitrary-plugin-installation-vulnerability-in-wp-legal-pages-wordpress-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"90319\">Plugin for WordPress<\/a> | Up to and including 2.0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-51606-critical-security-vulnerability-in-hippo4j-due-to-hard-coded-jwt-secret-key\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"89738\">vulnerability arises due<\/a> to insufficient escaping on the user supplied &#8216;data[id] parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query in the WPRecovery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-4689-critical-vulnerability-in-ads-pro-plugin-for-wordpress-leading-to-remote-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"92028\">plugin for WordPress<\/a>. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this flaw to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries. As the result of this SQL injection is passed directly to PHP&#8217;s unlink() function, attackers can delete arbitrary files on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9556-server-side-template-injection-vulnerability-in-langchaingo\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"89717\">server by injecting<\/a> file paths through the SQL query.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-646275582\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Below is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. This could be a sample HTTP request:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/wp_recovery\/endpoint HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{ &quot;data[id]&quot;: &quot;1; DROP TABLE users; --&quot; }<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the attacker is using a classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-57761-unpatched-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-wegia-web-manager\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"89746\">SQL injection<\/a> attack to drop the &#8220;users&#8221; table from the database.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To remediate this vulnerability, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9693-arbitrary-file-deletion-vulnerability-in-user-meta-user-profile-builder-plugin-for-wordpress\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"90551\">users of the affected versions of the WPRecovery Plugin<\/a> for WordPress should apply the vendor patch as soon as it becomes available. As a temporary mitigation, users can use a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to monitor and block suspicious activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The CVE-2025-10726 is a serious cybersecurity vulnerability that affects the WPRecovery plugin for WordPress, which is widely used across many websites for data recovery. The flaw opens the door for unauthenticated attackers to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities present in the system. This vulnerability not only exposes sensitive information, but also allows attackers to manipulate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[74],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-82465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","attack_vector-sql-injection"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82465"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85235,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82465\/revisions\/85235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=82465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}