Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23913

High

Published: 16 January 2025

Published
16 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.0th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23913 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 32.0th 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-2025-23913 is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command vulnerability, classified as SQL Injection (CWE-89), affecting the WordPress plugin Google Map Professional (google-map-professional) developed by pankajpragma. This issue impacts all versions from n/a through 1.0 inclusive, as published on 2025-01-16.

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 exploitation over the network with low attack complexity, requiring low privileges such as an authenticated subscriber-level user, and no user interaction. Attackers can achieve high confidentiality impact by extracting sensitive data from the database, alongside low availability impact and changed scope, but no integrity impact.

Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/google-map-professional/vulnerability/wordpress-google-map-professional-plugin-1-0-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the SQL injection vulnerability in Google Map Professional version 1.0, providing details for security practitioners to assess mitigation steps.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in pankajpragma WordPress Google Map Professional google-map-professional allows SQL Injection.This issue affects WordPress Google Map Professional: from n/a through <= 1.0.

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 directly enables exploitation of the web application for initial access and database data extraction.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

SI-2 requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws, directly mitigating this SQL injection vulnerability by patching the affected Google Map Professional WordPress plugin.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

SI-10 mandates validation of information inputs, preventing SQL injection by neutralizing special elements in SQL commands processed by the vulnerable plugin.

SC-7 Boundary Protection partial match
prevent

SC-7 provides boundary protection that can block SQL injection payloads via web application firewalls before they exploit the vulnerable WordPress plugin.

References