Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-13652

Medium

Published: 06 January 2026

Published
06 January 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0303 87.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-13652 is a medium-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 13.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-13652 is a generic SQL injection vulnerability in the CBX Bookmark & Favorite plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.0.4. The issue stems from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied 'orderby' parameter combined with a lack of sufficient preparation in the existing SQL query, as classified under CWE-89.

Authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows them to append additional SQL queries to existing ones, enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the database. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), highlighting high confidentiality impact.

Advisories reference a patch in WordPress plugins trac changeset 3413499, and further details are available in the Wordfence threat intelligence report at the provided URL.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The CBX Bookmark & Favorite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘orderby’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.4 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation…

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on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin enables remote exploitation for database data access.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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CVE-2026-36232Shared CWE-89
CVE-2026-31871Shared CWE-89
CVE-2026-33078Shared CWE-89
CVE-2026-46359Shared CWE-89
CVE-2025-22691Shared CWE-89

Affected Assets

Wordpress
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Directly mitigates the SQL injection by enforcing validation and sanitization of the user-supplied 'orderby' parameter to counter insufficient escaping and query preparation.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Addresses the flaw remediation for the specific SQL injection vulnerability in CBX Bookmark & Favorite plugin versions up to 2.0.4 via the referenced patch in trac changeset 3413499.

AU-13 Monitoring for Information Disclosure partial match
detect

Monitors for events indicating unauthorized disclosure of sensitive database information resulting from successful SQL injection exploitation.

References