PT-2025-37112 · WordPress · Catfolders – Tame Your Wordpress Media Library By Category

Kai Aizen · Published 2025-09-11 · Updated 2025-09-11 · CVE-2025-9776

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: CatFolders – Tame Your WordPress Media Library by Category plugin versions prior to 2.5.3

Description: The CatFolders – Tame Your WordPress Media Library by Category plugin for WordPress contains a time-based SQL Injection issue via the CSV Import contents. Insufficient escaping on the user-supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access and above to append additional SQL queries into existing queries to extract sensitive information from the database.

Recommendations: Update to CatFolders – Tame Your WordPress Media Library by Category plugin version 2.5.3 or later.

Fix

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-9776

Affected Products

Catfolders – Tame Your Wordpress Media Library By Category

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9776 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e585998a-d78f-4923-865c-c3a9820b583f?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1966001522153586813 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1966016988133634142 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/catfolders/tags/2.5.1/includes/Rest/Controllers/ImportController.php#L433 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/catfolders/tags/2.5.1/includes/Models/FolderModel.php#L376 · Note