Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-7385

Critical

Published: 25 September 2024

Published
25 September 2024
Modified
02 October 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1306 94.3th percentile
Risk Priority 26 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-7385 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Freelancer-Coder Wordpress Simple Html Sitemap. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 5.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The WordPress Simple HTML Sitemap plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'id' parameter in all versions up to and including 3.1. The flaw stems from insufficient escaping of user-supplied input and the absence of prepared statements on an existing SQL query in the plugin's wshs_saved.php file, allowing arbitrary query manipulation. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.1 and is tracked under CWE-89.

Authenticated attackers with Administrator-level access or higher can exploit the issue over the network to append additional SQL statements, enabling extraction of sensitive database contents. The attack requires no user interaction and can impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability across the WordPress installation.

References from the plugin's Trac repository show the vulnerable code path alongside a changeset that updates the affected file, indicating that mitigation involves applying the available patch or upgrading to a fixed version of the plugin. The current and peak EPSS score of 0.1306 shows no material post-disclosure rise.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The WordPress Simple HTML Sitemap plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.1 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on…

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the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-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

freelancer-coder
wordpress simple html sitemap
≤ 3.2

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