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CVE-2024-8855 (GCVE-0-2024-8855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 06:00 – Updated: 2025-01-07 15:19
VLAI
Title
WordPress Auction <= 3.7 - Editor+ SQL Injection
Summary
The WordPress Auction Plugin WordPress plugin through 3.7 does not sanitize and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, allowing editors and above to perform SQL injection attacks
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-07 15:18 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/04084f2a-45b8-42… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown WordPress Auction Plugin Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.7 (semver)
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Credits
Thanh Kieu WPScan
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