CVE-2024-10540

Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress <= 1.1.16 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection

2024-11-01 00:00
Arkadiusz Hydzik

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.17
Affected Plugin
Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress
Affected Version
<= 1.1.16
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE
CVE-2024-10540
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At a glance

CVE-2024-10540 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in the Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1.16. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.17; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by Arkadiusz Hydzik.

Vulnerability Overview

The Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'service' parameter of the bookingpress_form shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.16 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.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin <= 1.1.16 carries this weakness at service, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. SQL injection happens when request data is concatenated into a query instead of being bound as a parameter, letting an attacker change the structure of the statement rather than just its values.

A working injection can read any table the database user can see, which on a WordPress install means user records, password hashes and session or API secrets stored in options. For Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin the fix is 1.1.17: builds <= 1.1.16 are affected, anything from 1.1.17 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.17, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Subscriber access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin 1.1.17 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10540https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/21690b9c-ffec-4195-8c0f-2b1801552bc6https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10540

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