Critical SQL injection in Dayneks e‑commerce platform, vendor silent

Critical SQL injection in Dayneks e‑commerce platform, vendor silent — your checkout could be an open window

Just in: CVE-2025-11251, a critical SQL injection vulnerability, was disclosed for Dayneks Software Industry and Trade Inc.’s e‑commerce platform about 28 minutes ago. The flaw is rated 9.8, it permits SQL injection against affected installs through 27/02/2026, and the vendor was contacted early but did not respond. That’s the factual spine of this story, plain and worrying.

Although we don’t know whether attackers have exploited this particular weakness, the vulnerability type is one of the classics that can quietly let someone read, modify or delete database records. So, yes, customer accounts, order histories, product or pricing data, and payment-related records are all in the sort of place attackers like to poke around.

What happened, in plain terms

While the technical label is “SQL injection”, the business translation is simple: untrusted input is reaching the database in a way that can be turned against you. This allows malicious actors to make the database run unauthorised queries. Since the vendor didn’t engage with the disclosure, administrators and customers are left in limbo, which is the worst kind of uncertainty for risk managers and compliance teams.

Why this matters to your organisation

Given most e‑commerce platforms hold customer data, payment metadata or order fulfilment details, a vulnerability like this can hit lots of business functions at once. Customers lose trust. Payments and chargebacks cost money. Suppliers and fulfilment partners face disruption. Regulators can ask awkward questions, and boards end up on late night calls trying to understand timelines and liabilities.

Although nobody likes waking to a panic, the real costs are not just IT time. There may be incident response spend, forensic investigations, possible notification obligations under data protection laws, temporary loss of revenue if you take systems offline, and longer term reputational damage that hits new business. Short sentence. Painful, yes.

How this kind of weakness typically plays out if ignored

While you might hope that nothing happens, SQL injection vulnerabilities have a history of being weaponised quickly, or sitting quietly and being abused over months. Attackers can extract target tables, create backdoor accounts, or alter pricing and fulfilment rules so fraud becomes someone else’s problem to spot.

Although backups can save the day, if they’re untested or use the same compromised credentials, recovery becomes slow and expensive. Think of backups as parachutes you have never bothered to open. Not ideal at 3,000 feet.

Immediate steps to take (today)

Short checklist

• Identify exposure: confirm whether you or your suppliers run Dayneks’ platform and which versions are affected.

• Isolate and contain: where feasible, restrict public access to affected endpoints while you assess risk.

• Apply vendor fixes: if Dayneks releases a patch, test and deploy it urgently; if not, apply mitigations such as WAF rules and input validation.

• Rotate database credentials: change any DB credentials that are used by web front ends, and check for any excessive privileges.

• Turn on monitoring: increase logging and look for unusual queries, high volumes of SELECTs on sensitive tables, or unexpected account changes.

• Activate incident response: if you see evidence of compromise, follow your IR plan, preserve logs, and consider forensic support.

Medium term actions that actually stop this from recurring

Although throwing more kit at the problem feels productive, sensible process fixes pay bigger dividends. Start by auditing how you accept and manage third party software, and embed security into supplier contracts and onboarding. If the vendor won’t talk, you need contractual levers and fallbacks so your business isn’t waiting on radio silence.

While developers should already be using parameterised queries and input sanitisation, check that code review and secure development practices are enforced, and that testing includes automated dynamic scans and authenticated checks against real endpoints.

How ISO standards can have reduced the risk and speeded recovery

Since this is both a technical and supplier problem, an ISO 27001 information security management system would have helped in multiple ways: by forcing documented risk assessments for third party software, defining access control and least privilege for database accounts, and requiring a vulnerability management process that includes tracking vendor responses.

Given outages or breaches can interrupt trading, ISO 22301 business continuity planning helps keep orders flowing and staff paid while you manage the security clean up. It also gives clear responsibilities so communication with customers and partners is handled without guesswork.

For practical baseline controls, Cyber Essentials and IASME certifications show customers you take basic hygiene seriously, and security awareness training such as usecure reduces the chance that a separate phishing incident compounds the problem.

If you want formal assistance to put these things in place, see ISO 27001 information security management, ISO 22301 business continuity, and the ongoing support packages and services that can help with supplier assessments and incident response planning.

Practical security design notes

While every environment is different, some controls stand up well against SQL injection: parameterised queries, prepared statements, least privilege DB accounts, strict input validation at the business logic layer, runtime application monitoring, and a WAF tuned to block suspicious payloads.

Although it’s tempting to mark “application security” as someone else’s job, don’t. Make developers, ops and procurement jointly responsible for risk so software doesn’t arrive in production with security as an optional extra.

Final nudge

Although vendor silence is frustrating, you can’t outsource responsibility for the risk. Find out if Dayneks runs in your estate right now, assume the worst until proven otherwise, and patch or mitigate immediately. If you haven’t got an ISO 27001 aligned approach to supplier risk and vulnerability management, start one tomorrow morning. Small, sensible steps now will stop an ugly, expensive scramble later.