SQL Injection in Alttextai Alt Text Ai – Automatically Generate Image For Seo And Accessibility

CVE-2024-4847

The Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘last_post_id’ 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 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.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.006 (46.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-4847?
CVE-2024-4847 is a high-severity vulnerability in Alttextai Alt Text Ai – Automatically Generate Image For Seo And Accessibility, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-4847?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-4847 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.