---
id: CVE-2025-9198
title: >-
  The Wp cycle text announcement plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL
  Injection via the 'cycle-text' shortcode in all versions up to, and including,
  8.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of
  sufficien…
summary: >-
  The Wp cycle text announcement plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL
  Injection via the 'cycle-text' shortcode in all versions up to, and including,
  8.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of
  sufficien…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-89
published: '2025-10-03'
updated: '2026-10-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-08T22:10:00.563'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9198'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-cycle-text-announcement/trunk/wp-cycle-text-announcement.php#L129
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3db1375b-169a-450d-86b5-2db99f916034?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00342
epssPercentile: 0.25568
ingestedAt: '2026-10-08T22:11:53.765Z'
---

## Overview

The Wp cycle text announcement plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'cycle-text' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 8.1 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, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.