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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-0709
CVE-2024-0709:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List plugin for WordPress (versions 2.0 to 2.6.5) contains a SQL Injection vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-0709. The vulnerability exists in the 'coinslist' parameter due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied input and inadequate SQL query preparation (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as SQL Injection (CWE-89) and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) from Wordfence and 7.5 (HIGH) from NVD. The attack vector is network-accessible (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs no privileges (PR:N), and requires no user interaction (UI:N). The scope is unchanged (S:U) with potential for high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries to existing queries, potentially leading to the extraction of sensitive information from the database (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update to a version newer than 2.6.5 of the Cryptocurrency Widgets plugin to address this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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