CVE-2024-12311

Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Affordable, Powerful Email Marketing for WordPress & WooCommerce <= 5.7.43 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection

2024-12-16 00:00
Dmitrii Ignatyev

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.7.44
Affected Plugin
Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress
Affected Version
<= 5.7.43
CVSS
4.9Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2024-12311
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At a glance

CVE-2024-12311 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Email Subscribers & Newsletters WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.7.43. It carries a CVSS score of 4.9 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 5.7.44; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2024, reported by Dmitrii Ignatyev.

Vulnerability Overview

The Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Affordable, Powerful Email Marketing for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'data[datalorder_by_column]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.43 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.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Email Subscribers & Newsletters <= 5.7.43 carries this weakness at data[datalorder_by_column], and reaching it takes an account at Admin level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Email Subscribers & Newsletters the fix is 5.7.44: builds <= 5.7.43 are affected, anything from 5.7.44 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.7.44, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Admin 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: Email Subscribers & Newsletters 5.7.44 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12311https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6ad21e49-6a18-40f1-9c5f-3f1cbe97cb1dhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12311

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