PT-2025-38628 · WordPress · The Clickwhale – Link Manager

Naoya Takahashi · CVE-2025-10002 · Published 2025-09-20 · Updated 2025-09-20

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages plugin for WordPress versions prior to 2.5.1

Description The ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages plugin for WordPress is susceptible to SQL Injection via the export csv() function. Insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and inadequate preparation of existing SQL queries allow authenticated attackers with Administrator-level access or higher to append additional SQL queries, potentially extracting sensitive information from the database. Lower-level users may also be able to exploit this if granted access to the plugin.

Recommendations Update to version 2.5.1 or later.

Fix

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-10002

Affected Products

The Clickwhale – Link Manager

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10002 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/32991 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3361848/clickwhale/trunk/includes/admin/Clickwhale_Ajax.php · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1969291919734747333 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d6eba6da-ac14-4914-a807-6e234b80ee71?source=cve · Note