Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-12270

High

Published: 07 December 2024

Published
07 December 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
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 0.6598 98.5th percentile
Risk Priority 55 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-12270 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 1.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The Beautiful taxonomy filters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection in all versions through 2.4.3. The flaw is a classic CWE-89 instance in which the selects[0][term] parameter is concatenated into an existing query without adequate escaping or prepared-statement handling, allowing an attacker to alter the query semantics.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can therefore supply crafted input that appends arbitrary SQL clauses, enabling extraction of sensitive database contents. The CVSS 7.5 vector reflects network attackability with no authentication or user interaction required and a confidentiality impact limited to data disclosure.

Public references point to the plugin’s Trac repository and a subsequent changeset that addresses the parameter handling; the Wordfence advisory likewise recommends updating to a corrected release. The associated EPSS score has remained in the 0.66–0.68 range without a pronounced post-disclosure climb.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Beautiful taxonomy filters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'selects[0][term]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the…

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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

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Wordpress
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-89

Penetration testing uses SQL injection payloads against database interfaces, identifying and supporting fixes for SQL injection weaknesses.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-89

Validates query inputs to prevent SQL syntax or command manipulation.

References