CVE-2025-9451

MEDIUM

Smartcat Translator for WPML <3.1.69 - SQL Injection

Title source: llm

Description

The Smartcat Translator for WPML plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘orderby’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.72 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smartcat-wpml/trunk/includes/Services/App/Includes/TranslationRequestFinder.php#L30

Product

https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartcat-wpml/#developers

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3368366/

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c9ebc817-ccae-4ad2-8eea-eade1c2a1a0c?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0029

EPSS Percentile 20.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-89

Status published

Products (2)

smartcatai/Smartcat Translator for WPML < 3.1.69

smartcatai/Smartcat Translator for WPML < 3.1.72

Published Sep 11, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026