SQL Injection in WordPress Plugin ORDER BY Clause

The SaveTo Wishlist Lite WordPress plugin before 1.1.5 does not sanitise and escape parameters before using them in the ORDER BY clause of a SQL query, allowing unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries and extract sensitive information from the database.

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Analysis

The SaveTo Wishlist Lite WordPress plugin before version 1.1.5 contains a SQL injection vulnerability in its ORDER BY clause handling. The plugin fails to properly sanitize and escape user-supplied parameters before incorporating them into database queries, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious SQL commands. This vulnerability affects any WordPress installation running the vulnerable plugin version, potentially exposing sensitive database information including user credentials, personal data, and configuration details. With a CVSS score of 8.6, this represents a high-severity risk that requires immediate patching.

Casky's 323 matched skills leverage Claude's extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns underlying this vulnerability across both initial access (TA0001) and exfiltration (TA0043) techniques. Practitioners using Casky would identify SQL injection attempts through detection of unsanitized ORDER BY parameter manipulation—such as unusual SQL syntax, conditional statements, or UNION-based queries appended to sorting parameters. The platform's skills map reconnaissance and exploitation patterns specific to WordPress plugin enumeration, followed by data exfiltration signatures that reveal how attackers systematically extract database contents. Claude's reasoning capabilities enable correlation of suspicious query patterns with timing anomalies and error-based SQL inference techniques, surfacing attack chains that traditional signature-based detection might miss.

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323 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

These skills use Claude AI's reasoning model to surface findings in the same attack categories as CVE-2026-89236.

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mobile security · low

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0001 TA0043

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