Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-3217

High

Published: 05 April 2024

Published
05 April 2024
Modified
08 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.5293 98.0th percentile
Risk Priority 49 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-3217 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Wpdirectorykit Wp Directory Kit. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 2.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The WP Directory Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'attribute_value' and 'attribute_id' parameters in all versions up to and including 1.3.0. The issue stems from insufficient escaping of user-supplied input combined with the absence of prepared statements on existing SQL queries, as documented in the plugin's Wdk_frontendajax.php controller.

Authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher can exploit the flaw over the network to append arbitrary SQL to existing queries. Successful exploitation can yield extraction of sensitive database contents, with the vulnerability carrying a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 reflecting high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Public references include WordPress plugin trac entries and a Wordfence advisory that point to a fix released in changeset 3064842, which updates the affected frontend AJAX handler. The EPSS score currently stands at 0.5293 with a recorded peak of 0.5350.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The WP Directory Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'attribute_value' and 'attribute_id' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation…

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on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, 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

wpdirectorykit
wp directory kit
≤ 1.3.1

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.

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