Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-8275

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 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.8354 99.3th percentile
Risk Priority 70 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-8275 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Stellarwp The Events Calendar. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection in the tribe_has_next_event function. The flaw stems from insufficient escaping of the user-supplied order parameter and the absence of prepared statements in the existing query. All versions through 6.6.4 are affected, although the issue is present only on sites that have manually invoked the function.

Unauthenticated attackers can supply a crafted order value to append additional SQL statements to the original query. Successful exploitation allows extraction of sensitive database contents and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8.

A fix is available in the plugin changelog referenced by the vendor and Wordfence. The EPSS score stands at 0.8354 with no material post-disclosure increase from a lower baseline.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'order' parameter of the 'tribe_has_next_event' function in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.4 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of…

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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. Only sites that have manually added tribe_has_next_event() will be vulnerable to this SQL injection.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

stellarwp
the events calendar
≤ 6.6.4.1

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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