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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-12404
CVE-2024-12404:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The CF Internal Link Shortcode plugin for WordPress contains a SQL Injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-12404) affecting all versions up to and including 1.1.0. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on January 10, 2025. The issue exists in the 'post_title' parameter due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied input and inadequate SQL query preparation (NVD Database).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a SQL Injection (CWE-89) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH). The attack vector is network-accessible (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs no privileges (PR:N), requires no user interaction (UI:N), has unchanged scope (S:U), and can result in high confidentiality impact (C:H) with no impact on integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N) (NVD Database).
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 Database).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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