CVE-2024-12416
Published: 07 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-12416 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 27.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-12416 is a SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-89) in the Live Sales Notification for WooCommerce – Woomotiv plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.6.1. The issue arises from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied parameter in the 'woomotiv_seen_products_.*' cookie and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query, allowing injection into database operations.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction or privileges required, as reflected in 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). Exploitation enables appending additional SQL queries to existing ones, resulting in the extraction of sensitive information from the database without impacting integrity or availability.
Mitigation details are provided in advisories including the WordPress plugin trac changeset at https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3237395/ and Wordfence threat intelligence at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/82016921-4efb-47b4-9a75-45cae4ad80f9?source=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50839
Vulnerability details
The Live Sales Notification for Woocommerce – Woomotiv plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'woomotiv_seen_products_.*' cookie in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of…
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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.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation (T1190) and extraction of data from databases (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly mitigates SQL injection by enforcing validation and sanitization of untrusted cookie inputs before incorporation into SQL queries.
Requires timely remediation of the specific SQL injection flaw in the Woomotiv plugin through patching or updates.
Vulnerability scanning identifies SQL injection vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-12416 in plugins prior to exploitation.