What is CVE-2024-6166?

CVE-2024-6166 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unitecms Unlimited Elements For Elementor, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-07-09.

How severe is CVE-2024-6166?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-6166 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

SQL Injection in Unitecms Unlimited Elements For Elementor

CVE-2024-6166

The Unlimited Elements For Elementor (Free Widgets, Addons, Templates) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘addons_order’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.112 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 Contributor-level access and above and granted plugin setting edit permissions by an administrator, 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: 0.005 (40.8th 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)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6166?: CVE-2024-6166 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unitecms Unlimited Elements For Elementor, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2024-6166?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6166 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.