CVE-2025-26988

Critical

Published: 03 March 2025

Published

03 March 2025

Modified

23 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L

EPSS Score 0.0011 28.2th percentile

Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-26988 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Cozyvision Sms Alert Order Notifications. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 28.2th 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).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. 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 requires validation and sanitization of inputs to prevent SQL injection attacks like CVE-2025-26988 in the SMS Alert plugin.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Mandates timely remediation of identified flaws, ensuring patching of the vulnerable Cozy Vision SMS Alert plugin versions up to 3.7.8.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning partial match

detect

Enables vulnerability scanning to identify SQL injection issues such as CVE-2025-26988 in WordPress plugins and initiate remediation.

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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T1213.006 Databases Collection

Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.

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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin enables remote unauthenticated exploitation (T1190) and direct unauthorized database data extraction (T1213.006).

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

NVD Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Cozy Vision SMS Alert Order Notifications sms-alert allows SQL Injection.This issue affects SMS Alert Order Notifications: from n/a through <= 3.7.8.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-26988 is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability, classified under CWE-89, affecting the Cozy Vision SMS Alert Order Notifications WordPress plugin (sms-alert). This issue impacts all versions from n/a through 3.7.8, specifically within the WooCommerce integration for SMS order notifications.

The vulnerability enables exploitation by unauthenticated remote attackers (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation leads to a scoped impact (S:C) with high confidentiality consequences (C:H), such as unauthorized data extraction from the database, alongside low availability disruption (A:L), resulting in a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.3.

The Patchstack advisory provides details on the vulnerability and mitigation, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/sms-alert/vulnerability/wordpress-sms-alert-order-notifications-woocommerce-plugin-3-7-8-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.