CVE-2025-1648

HighPublic PoC

Published: 25 February 2025

Published

25 February 2025

Modified

28 February 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0101 77.2th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-1648 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Yawave Yawave. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 22.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190). What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Directly counters SQL injection by requiring validation and sanitization of user-supplied inputs like the 'lbid' parameter to prevent query manipulation.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Mandates timely flaw remediation, such as patching the Yawave plugin to fix the insufficient escaping and preparation in versions up to 2.9.1.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning good match

detect

Requires vulnerability scanning to identify the SQL injection flaw in the Yawave plugin, enabling proactive remediation before exploitation.

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?

Direct unauthenticated SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin enables remote exploitation of web application for database data access.

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

NVD Description

The Yawave plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'lbid' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.1 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.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-1648 is a SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-89) in the Yawave plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.9.1. The issue stems from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied 'lbid' parameter and lack of sufficient preparation in the existing SQL query, published on 2025-02-25 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction. By appending additional SQL queries to existing ones via the 'lbid' parameter, they can extract sensitive information from the database.

Advisories provide further details on mitigation, including Atvik Security's report on the unauthenticated SQL injection, the vulnerable code in the WordPress plugin Trac at shortcode.liveblog.php line 69, and Wordfence threat intelligence.