Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-3495

Critical

Published: 22 May 2024

Published
22 May 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.9324 99.8th percentile
Risk Priority 76 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-3495 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The Country State City Dropdown CF7 plugin for WordPress is affected by CVE-2024-3495, a SQL injection vulnerability present in versions up to and including 2.7.2. The flaw resides in the plugin’s AJAX handlers and stems from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied “cnt” and “sid” parameters combined with the absence of prepared statements in the existing SQL queries.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can supply crafted values to these parameters and append arbitrary SQL clauses to the original queries. Successful exploitation allows extraction of sensitive information from the WordPress database and, given the CVSS 9.8 rating, potentially broader manipulation of database contents.

Public references include the vulnerable code paths in the plugin’s ajax-actions.php file, a Wordfence threat-intelligence entry, and a WordPress plugin changeset that updates the affected file, indicating an available patch. The associated EPSS score remains elevated at approximately 0.93, reflecting sustained exploitation interest after disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Country State City Dropdown CF7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the ‘cnt’ and 'sid' parameters in versions up to, and including, 2.7.2 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.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Wordpress
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

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.

References