Accredible Certificates & Open Badges Plugin up to 1.4.9 on WordPress orderby sql injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Accredible Certificates & Open Badges Plugin up to 1.4.9 on WordPress. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument orderby leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-13909. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Accredible Certificates & Open Badges Plugin up to 1.4.9 on WordPress. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument orderby 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Accredible Certificates & Open Badges plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘orderby’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.9 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 Administrator-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 advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-13909 since 02/25/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is 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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• Accredible Certificates & Open Badges Plugin

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• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.4.5
• 1.4.6
• 1.4.7
• 1.4.8
• 1.4.9

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