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CVE-2025-1768: SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.05 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via search Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind SQL Injection via the 'search' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.4.05 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 Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected products

• SEO Squirrly SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO: before 12.4.06 — fixed in 12.4.06

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SEO Squirrly SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO 12.4.06. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Assistant.php?rev=3207037#L55
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Audits.php?rev=3207037#L86
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/BulkSeo.php?rev=3207037#L148
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/FocusPages.php?rev=3207037#L107
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Onboarding.php?rev=3207037#L62
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Post.php?rev=3207037#L480
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/models/Snippet.php?rev=3207037#L118
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/models/Snippet.php?rev=3207037#L96
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3248412/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3250395/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1a23ee5c-275f-4d51-8199-1cc2b0086f73?source=cve

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