What is CVE-2025-8977?

CVE-2025-8977 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mra13 Simple Download Monitor, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-08-28.

How severe is CVE-2025-8977?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Mra13 Simple Download Monitor

CVE-2025-8977

The Simple Download Monitor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the order parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.33 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, and permissions granted by an Administrator, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.003 (21.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Mra13 Simple Download Monitor — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8977?: CVE-2025-8977 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mra13 Simple Download Monitor, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-08-28.
How severe is CVE-2025-8977?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.