CVE-2025-14770
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe Shipping Rate By Cities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'city' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe Shipping Rate By Cities WordPress plugin versions up to 2.0.0 contain a SQL injection vulnerability in the 'city' parameter. The plugin fails to properly escape user input and does not use prepared statements, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary SQL queries and extract sensitive data from the database.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm plugin installationCheck for the Shipping Rate By Cities plugin directory in wp-content/plugins/ and list its filesAffected if The plugin directory exists in the WordPress plugins folder
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Identify installed versionOpen the main plugin PHP file (e.g., shipping-rate-by-cities.php) and check the version header comment, or check readme.txt for the Version fieldAffected if The reported version is 2.0.0 or lower (versions up to and including 2.0.0 are affected)
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Verify plugin is activeIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and confirm Shipping Rate By Cities is activated, or query the wp_options table for option_name = 'active_plugins'Affected if The plugin is currently active and handling shipping requests
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Confirm vulnerable parameter usage existsExamine the main plugin file for code handling a 'city' POST or GET parameter (look for $_POST['city'] or $_GET['city'] in the plugin code)Affected if The plugin code processes a 'city' parameter without using $wpdb->prepare() or equivalent prepared statement functions
Your environment is affected if the Shipping Rate By Cities plugin is installed, active, and running version 2.0.0 or lower, with code that directly uses the 'city' parameter in SQL queries without prepared statements.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade the plugin to version 2.0.1 or later which includes proper input sanitization and prepared SQL statements. If immediate upgrade is not possible, disable the plugin until a patch can be applied.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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