CVE-2025-22799
Published: 15 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22799 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 35.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); 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-2025-22799 is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability, classified under CWE-89, affecting the Neon Product Designer for WooCommerce WordPress plugin developed by vertim. The issue impacts all versions of the plugin from n/a through 2.2.0 and was published on 2025-01-15.
The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L), indicating it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Low-privileged remote users, such as authenticated WordPress roles with minimal permissions, can exploit it to achieve high confidentiality impact by extracting sensitive data, alongside low availability impact, with the exploit affecting components beyond the vulnerable one due to the changed scope.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/neon-product-designer-for-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-neon-product-designer-plugin-2-1-1-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3003
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in vertim Neon Product Designer neon-product-designer-for-woocommerce allows SQL Injection.This issue affects Neon Product Designer: from n/a through <= 2.2.0.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and facilitates extraction of sensitive data from databases (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly addresses SQL injection by requiring validation and sanitization of user inputs to the Neon Product Designer plugin before they are used in SQL commands.
Mandates timely remediation of the specific SQL injection flaw in the vulnerable plugin versions up to 2.2.0.
Provides boundary protection via web application firewalls or similar controls to block SQL injection payloads targeting the WordPress plugin.