Collapsing Categories - SQLi (CVE-2024-12025)

CVE-2024-12025 is a SQL injection vulnerability in the Collapsing Categories plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.0.8. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit the 'taxonomy' parameter in the plugin's REST API, potentially enabling them to execute arbitrary SQL queries and extract sensitive information from the WordPress database.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 25th of March 2026.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2024-12025 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations. CrowdSec network telemetry also shows that exploitation of CVE-2024-12025 has significantly declined over the past week. Attack volumes are well below the long-term average, suggesting attackers are rapidly losing interest. The vulnerability appears to be falling out of active use across most threat landscapes.

Attackers exploit the /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get REST API endpoint by injecting malicious SQL code into the taxonomy parameter, enabling unauthenticated SQL injection attempts against vulnerable WordPress sites.