CVE-2025-13138

HIGH NUCLEI

WP Directory Kit <1.4.3 - SQL Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2025-13138 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

The WP Directory Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'columns_search' parameter of the select_2_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.3 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.

Nuclei Templates (1)

WP Directory Kit <= 1.4.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
HIGHVERIFIEDby Shivam Kamboj
Shodan: html:"plugins/wpdirectorykit/"

References (4)

Core 4

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.1235
EPSS Percentile 94.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-89
Status published
Products (2)
listingthemes/WP Directory Kit < 1.4.3
wpdirectorykit/WP Directory Kit < 1.4.3
Published Nov 21, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026