CVE-2024-13531
Published: 12 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-13531 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Enituretechnology Shipengine Shipping 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-13531 is a SQL injection vulnerability in the ShipEngine Shipping Quotes plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 1.0.7. The issue stems from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied 'edit_id' parameter combined with a lack of sufficient preparation in the existing SQL query, enabling injection of malicious SQL code.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction. Exploitation allows appending additional SQL queries to existing ones, potentially extracting sensitive information from the database, as reflected in 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) and associated CWE-89.
Mitigation details are available in advisories from Wordfence and a patch committed in WordPress plugins trac changeset 3241894. Security practitioners should update the plugin to the fixed version beyond 1.0.7.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51657
Vulnerability details
The ShipEngine Shipping Quotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'edit_id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7 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.
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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
Directly mitigates SQL injection by requiring validation of user-supplied inputs like the 'edit_id' parameter to prevent malicious SQL code injection.
Addresses the root cause of the vulnerability by identifying, reporting, and correcting the SQL injection flaw in the ShipEngine plugin through timely patching.
Boundary protection mechanisms such as web application firewalls can filter and block SQL injection attempts targeting the vulnerable 'edit_id' parameter at the network edge.