CVE-2025-5017

Published Jul 11, 2026

Last updated an hour ago

Overview

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CVE-2025-5017 identifies a time-based SQL Injection vulnerability present in the Catalyst Connect Zoho CRM Client Portal plugin for WordPress. This flaw affects all plugin versions up to and including 2.2.0. The vulnerability specifically arises from insufficient escaping of the 'uid' parameter and inadequate preparation of the existing SQL query. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers, possessing Administrator-level access or higher, to append additional SQL queries to existing ones. This capability can be leveraged to extract sensitive information directly from the database.

Description: The Catalyst Connect Zoho CRM Client Portal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘uid’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Source: security@wordfence.com
NVD status: Deferred

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.9
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 1.2
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security@wordfence.com: CWE-89

Hype score is a measure of social media activity compared against trending CVEs from the past 12 months. Max score 100.

Hype score: 1

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