Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-11260

High

Published: 21 February 2025

Published
21 February 2025
Modified
25 February 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0008 23.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-11260 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Pixelite Events Manager. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 23.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-11260 is a time-based SQL injection vulnerability affecting the Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress in all versions up to and including 6.6.3. The flaw arises from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied active_status parameter and lack of sufficient preparation in the existing SQL query within the em-events.php component, allowing attackers to append additional SQL queries.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity, as indicated by its CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N). Successful exploitation enables extraction of sensitive information from the database without impacting integrity or availability.

Mitigation details and further analysis are available in advisories from Wordfence and the plugin's source code repository, including the vulnerable code at line 606 in em-events.php.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the active_status parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and…

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lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

Time-based SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote unauthenticated exploitation for database data extraction.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

pixelite
events manager
≤ 6.6.4

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Requires validation and sanitization of user-supplied parameters like active_status to prevent time-based SQL injection by rejecting malicious input before SQL query execution.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Mandates timely patching or updating of the vulnerable Events Manager plugin versions up to 6.6.3 to remediate the SQL injection flaw in em-events.php.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning partial match
detect

Enables vulnerability scanning to identify the time-based SQL injection in the active_status parameter of the Events Manager plugin, facilitating proactive remediation.

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