CVE-2024-13480
Published: 12 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-13480 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 44.7th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-13480 is a SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-89) in the LTL Freight Quotes – For Customers of FedEx Freight plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.4.1. The issue stems from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied 'edit_id' and 'dropship_edit_id' parameters combined with inadequate preparation of existing SQL queries, allowing malicious input to alter query behavior.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity and no user interaction, appending additional SQL queries to extract sensitive information from the database. The CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) reflects high confidentiality impact via network access, with no privileges required and unchanged scope.
Advisories indicate mitigation through updating the plugin, as evidenced by WordPress plugin trac changeset 3238359, which addresses the flaw. Additional details are available in Wordfence's threat intelligence report.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51625
Vulnerability details
The LTL Freight Quotes – For Customers of FedEx Freight plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'edit_id' and 'dropship_edit_id' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied…
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parameter and 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.
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Why these techniques?
SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote unauthenticated exploitation of a web application for database data access.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Requires validation of user-supplied parameters like 'edit_id' and 'dropship_edit_id' to block malicious SQL injection payloads.
Mandates timely remediation of flaws such as the SQL injection vulnerability through plugin updates as indicated in the advisory.
Enables vulnerability scanning to identify and address SQL injection flaws in WordPress plugins prior to exploitation.