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Pretty Links – Link Management, Branding, Tracking & Sharing Plugin <= 1.6.7 — SQL Injection

CVE-2015-9457Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.6.8Update to 1.6.8 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.2
CVSS
7.2
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links pretty-link

  1. Affected< 1.6.8
  2. Patched in1.6.8

Update to 1.6.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.6.8. Version 1.6.8 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.6.8, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Marcin Probola.

The pretty-link plugin before 1.6.8 for WordPress has PrliLinksController::list_links SQL injection via the group parameter.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 's' Parameter
≤3.6.20Update to 3.6.21
CVE-2026-5062
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤3.6.15Update to 3.6.16
CVE-2025-48247
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via post_status
≤3.6.2Update to 3.6.3
CVE-2024-29770
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update
≤3.6.3Update to 3.6.4
CVE-2024-2326
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery via route
≤3.4.0Update to 3.4.1
CVE-2022-47149

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.2

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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