CVE-2024-13477
Published: 12 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-13477 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Eniture Ltl Freight Quotes. 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 47.2th 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-2024-13477 is a SQL injection vulnerability in the LTL Freight Quotes – Unishippers Edition plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.5.8. The flaw occurs via the 'edit_id' parameter due to insufficient escaping of user-supplied input and lack of sufficient preparation in the existing SQL query, as detailed in the plugin's source code at shipping-rules-save.php line 84. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) and is associated with CWE-89.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By appending additional SQL queries to existing ones, they can extract sensitive information from the database.
Advisories reference the vulnerable code in the WordPress plugin trac repository and a patch applied in changeset 3237773. Wordfence threat intelligence provides further details on the issue via its vulnerability ID 7df452c9-4e73-40d7-88a3-d38ae1309d8f.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51624
Vulnerability details
The LTL Freight Quotes – Unishippers Edition plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'edit_id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient…
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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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Why these techniques?
SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of web application for database data access.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly prevents SQL injection by requiring validation and sanitization of user-supplied inputs like the 'edit_id' parameter before incorporation into SQL queries.
Mandates timely identification, reporting, and patching of the SQL injection flaw in the WordPress plugin up to version 2.5.8.
Restricts the 'edit_id' parameter to valid formats such as numeric values only, blocking malicious SQL payloads from being appended to queries.