Time-Based SQL Injection Vulnerability in Owl Carousel Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-5590

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress

Vendor
CVE Published:
26 June 2025

What is CVE-2025-5590?

The Owl Carousel responsive plugin for WordPress suffers from a time-based SQL Injection vulnerability due to inadequate escaping of the 'id' parameter in all versions up to and including 1.9. This flaw enables authenticated users with Contributor-level access or higher to inject additional SQL queries into existing database queries. Consequently, attackers could manipulate the database, potentially extracting sensitive information.

Affected Version(s)

Owl carousel responsive * <= 1.9

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Peter Thaleikis
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CVE-2025-5590 : Time-Based SQL Injection Vulnerability in Owl Carousel Plugin for WordPress