Hero Maps Premium Plugin up to 2.3.9 on WordPress sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in Hero Maps Premium Plugin up to 2.3.9 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. This manipulation causes sql injection. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-13781. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Hero Maps Premium Plugin up to 2.3.9 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The Hero Maps Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via several AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.9 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

The weakness was presented by Lucio Sá. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-13781 since 01/28/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1505 for this issue.

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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• Hero

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• Maps Premium Plugin

Version

• 2.3.0
• 2.3.1
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.6
• 2.3.7
• 2.3.8
• 2.3.9

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