# CVE-2025-54726: JS Archive List - SQLi

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Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-54726

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Miguel Useche JS Archive List
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))
- **Tags:** wordpress, cms

## Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Miguel Useche JS Archive List allows SQL Injection. This issue affects JS Archive List: from n/a through n/a.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-54726](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54726) is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Miguel Useche's JS Archive List, allowing remote attackers to manipulate database queries by injecting malicious SQL code. Exploitation of this flaw could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data, data leakage, or potential disruption of application functionality.

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

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2025-54726 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-2025-54726 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 this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to the `/wp-json/jalw/v1/archive` endpoint, injecting SQL payloads via the `cats` parameter to execute arbitrary SQL commands on vulnerable WordPress sites.

## Timeline

- 2025-08-20: CVE Published. CVE-2025-54726 is published to NVD.
- 2026-03-25: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-54726 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-03-31: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-54726 for the first time.

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/jquery-archive-list-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-js-archive-list-plugin-6-1-6-sql-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-54726.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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