What is CVE-2024-6497?

CVE-2024-6497 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cifi Seo Plugin By Squirrly, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-07-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-6497?

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

Is CVE-2024-6497 known to be exploited?

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

SQL Injection in Cifi Seo Plugin By Squirrly

CVE-2024-6497

The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.3.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE-2024-43286 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.110 (95.7th 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

Cifi Seo Plugin By Squirrly — versions 0
Squirrly Seo_plugin_by_squirrly_seo

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6497?: CVE-2024-6497 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cifi Seo Plugin By Squirrly, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2024-07-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-6497?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6497 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.