Oh For Fuck’s Sake, Not Another WordPress Shitshow

Listen here, you bunch of witless WordPress click-monkeys. Just when I thought your collective incompetence couldn’t possibly sink any lower, some overpaid muppet with a Codecanyon account has gone and deployed the “Essential Addons for Elementor” plugin—or as I now call it, “Essential Entry Points for Every Script Kiddie”—and now a quarter-million of your digital shitheaps are hemorrhaging data like a hemophiliac at a knife convention.

CVE-2025-Whatever-The-Fuck is an unauthenticated SQL injection flaw that allows any random bastard on the internet to shove malicious queries straight up your database’s arse without so much as buying it dinner first. The developers finally pulled their heads out of their backsides and patched it in version 6.4.2 back in January, but apparently clicking “update” is too much cognitive load for you lot, so here we are in sodding February with Wordfence researchers tripping over active exploits in the wild.

The vulnerability lurks in the REST API’s ‘order’ parameter because some frontend cowboy—who probably bills at £800 a day to install drag-and-drop page builders—couldn’t be arsed to sanitize user inputs. “Oh, it’s just a harmless sorting parameter,” they said. Well guess what, you absolute wallopers? It’s now a skeleton key for every skiddie and their dog to extract admin hashes, dump your customer databases, and turn your precious “brochure sites” into cryptocurrency miners for teenagers in Minsk.

So here’s the deal: Update to version 6.4.2 immediately. Or don’t. Frankly, watching you panic-sweat while explaining to your clients why their WooCommerce store is now distributing ransomware is the only joy I get since they banned recreational cattle prods in the server room.

Full details here, not that you’ll bother reading them: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sqli-flaw-in-elementor-ally-plugin-impacts-250k-plus-wordpress-sites/

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Speaking of unsanitized inputs, this whole mess reminds me of the time I caught the PFY installing a “productivity plugin” on the main accounting cluster. I didn’t bother patching the code—I patched the PFY. With a cricket bat wrapped in barbed wire. He’s still finding fragments of Willow#2 in his keyboard three years later.

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