Description

The Advanced Google reCAPTCHA plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘sSearch’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.29 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, particularly when the plugin’s settings page hasn’t been visited and its welcome message has not been dismissed. This issue can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-2074

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.3

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

Affected Products

Vendor: webfactory

Product: Advanced Google reCAPTCHA

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 9.47% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-21 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2074
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/963a9b30-9194-4abc-aa69-eb333cbddef3?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-google-recaptcha/trunk/libs/ajax.php?rev=3248228#L20
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-google-recaptcha/trunk/libs/ajax.php?rev=3248228#L277
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-google-recaptcha/trunk/libs/ajax.php?rev=3248228#L401
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-google-recaptcha/trunk/libs/admin.php?rev=3248228#L106
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-google-recaptcha/trunk/libs/setup.php?rev=3248228#L636
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-google-recaptcha/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3262396/

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