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CVE-2024-13344: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Advance Seat Reservation Management for WooCommerce Plugin

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Overview

The CVE-2024-13344 refers to a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the Advance Seat Reservation Management for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability could potentially lead to system compromise or data leakage, impacting any website using versions up to and including 3.3 of the plugin. The severity of this vulnerability underlines the necessity of immediate patching or mitigation.

Vulnerability Summary

CVE ID: CVE-2024-13344
Severity: High (CVSS: 7.5)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Impact: Potential system compromise or data leakage

Affected Products

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Product | Affected Versions

Advance Seat Reservation Management for WooCommerce | <=3.3 How the Exploit Works

The exploit takes advantage of insufficient escaping on the user supplied ‘profileId’ parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query within the WordPress plugin. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious SQL queries, append additional SQL queries into already existing queries, and potentially extract sensitive data from the database.

Conceptual Example Code

A hypothetical example of how this vulnerability might be exploited is as follows:

GET /?profileId=1' OR '1'='1'; -- HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerable-website.com

In this example, the ‘profileId’ parameter is manipulated with SQL injection to always return true, effectively bypassing any intended restrictions and potentially exposing sensitive data from the database.

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