CVE-2024-1893
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Easy Property Listings plugin for WordPress contains a time-based SQL Injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-1893) in versions up to and including 3.5.2. The vulnerability exists in the 'property_status' shortcode attribute due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied parameters and inadequate SQL query preparation (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as SQL Injection (CWE-89) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (High). The attack vector is network-accessible (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs low privileges (PR:L), requires no user interaction (UI:N), has unchanged scope (S:U), and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H) (Wordfence).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor access or higher to append additional SQL queries to existing ones, potentially leading to the extraction of sensitive information from the database (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 3.5.3 or later which contains the fix for this vulnerability (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources


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