whyun WPCOM Member Plugin up to 1.7.6 on WordPress user_phone sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in whyun WPCOM Member Plugin up to 1.7.6 on WordPress and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation of the argument user_phone leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-2221. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in whyun WPCOM Member Plugin up to 1.7.6 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation of the argument user_phone with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The WPCOM Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘user_phone’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.6 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

The weakness was disclosed by wesley. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-2221 since 03/11/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.7.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• whyun

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• WPCOM Member Plugin

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• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6

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