Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-6457

Critical

Published: 16 July 2024

Published
16 July 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 0.0848 92.5th percentile
Risk Priority 25 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-6457 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Pluginus Husky - Products Filter Professional For Woocommerce. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 7.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The HUSKY – Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL injection in all versions through 1.3.6. The flaw exists in the woof_author parameter, where user input is insufficiently escaped and the existing SQL query lacks prepared-statement handling, allowing an attacker to append arbitrary SQL.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit the issue over the network to extract sensitive database contents. The vulnerability carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8, reflecting full impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with no authentication or user interaction required.

Public references point to a fix committed in WordPress plugin changeset 3116888 and documented in the Wordfence advisory for ID ecfdf7b1-9bb8-4c1d-a00a-ca1e44440cab; administrators should update to a patched release or apply the changeset to close the injection vector. The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0848 with no material post-disclosure rise.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The HUSKY – Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘woof_author’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.6 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack…

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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.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

pluginus
husky - products filter professional for woocommerce
≤ 1.3.6.1

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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