CVE-2025-30788
Published: 27 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-30788 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 36.8th 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 SC-23 (Session Authenticity) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-30788 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, in the WordPress plugin Eli EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup ( Elisqlreports). The flaw enables SQL Injection and affects all versions up to and including 5.25.08.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), such as tricking an authenticated user into visiting a malicious site or clicking a forged link. Exploitation changes scope (S:C), resulting in high confidentiality impact (C:H) with low integrity (I:N) and availability (A:L) effects, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries and potentially extract sensitive database information from affected WordPress sites.
The Patchstack advisory provides details on mitigation: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/elisqlreports/vulnerability/wordpress-ez-sql-reports-shortcode-widget-and-db-backup-plugin-5-25-08-csrf-to-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-8385
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Eli EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup elisqlreports allows SQL Injection.This issue affects EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup: from n/a through <= 5.25.08.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
CSRF to SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of web applications for arbitrary SQL queries and database data extraction.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 enforces session authenticity mechanisms like CSRF tokens to prevent unauthorized forged requests that trigger SQL injection in the WordPress plugin.
SI-10 requires validation and sanitization of user inputs to block SQL injection payloads delivered via the CSRF vulnerability.
SI-2 mandates timely identification, reporting, and remediation of flaws like this CSRF-to-SQLi vulnerability through patching the affected plugin versions.