Description

WordPress Plugin SEO by Squirrly SEO is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin SEO by Squirrly SEO version 12.3.19 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 12.3.20 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/squirrly-seo/seo-plugin-by-squirrly-seo-12319-authenticated-contributor-sql-injection-via-url-parameter

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/squirrly-seo/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2024-6497 CWE-89 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update SQL Injection