What is CVE-2024-8679?

CVE-2024-8679 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Owthub Library Management System, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2024-12-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-8679?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-8679 known to be exploited?

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

SQL Injection in Owthub Library Management System

CVE-2024-8679

The Library Management System – Manage e-Digital Books Library plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the ‘value' parameter of the owt_lib_handler AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.1 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.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.004 (35.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Owthub Library Management System — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

b1d0ws/CVEs

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8679?: CVE-2024-8679 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Owthub Library Management System, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2024-12-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-8679?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8679 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.