Collapsing Categories Plugin up to 3.0.8 on WordPress sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in Collapsing Categories Plugin up to 3.0.8 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-12025. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Collapsing Categories Plugin up to 3.0.8 on WordPress and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Collapsing Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'taxonomy' parameter of the /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get REST API in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack 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.

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-12025 since 12/02/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/18/2024). This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Collapsing Categories Plugin

Version

• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8

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