Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-6028

Critical

Published: 25 June 2024

Published
25 June 2024
Modified
08 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 0.8030 99.1th percentile
Risk Priority 68 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-6028 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Ays-Pro Quiz Maker. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The Quiz Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the 'ays_questions' parameter in all versions up to and including 6.5.8.3. The flaw is caused by insufficient escaping of the user-supplied value combined with the absence of prepared statements on an existing SQL query, classified as CWE-89.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the issue remotely without user interaction to append additional SQL statements, enabling extraction of sensitive database contents and carrying full impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability per the CVSS 9.8 rating.

References in the WordPress plugin repository document the corrective changesets applied to class-quiz-maker-public.php, with remediation appearing in versions 6.5.8.2 and 6.5.8.4; site administrators are advised to update through the official plugin directory.

The associated EPSS score stands at a current value of 0.8030 with a recorded peak of 0.8191.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Quiz Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the 'ays_questions' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.8.3 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.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

ays-pro
quiz maker
≤ 6.5.8.4

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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