Description

The Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO – Easily Fix/Monitor Internal and External links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'orderBy' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-1264

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.5

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

Affected Products

Vendor: aioseo

Product: Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO – Easily Fix/Monitor Internal and External links

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 8.31% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1264
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce2d582e-4f50-4b55-9f3b-3c46d96c0927?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker-seo/trunk/app/Api/Api.php#L42
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker-seo/trunk/app/Api/LinkStatusTable.php#L31
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker-seo/trunk/app/Core/Database.php#L1357
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker-seo/trunk/app/Core/Database.php#L552
https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker-seo
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3263416%40broken-link-checker-seo&new=3263416%40broken-link-checker-seo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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