# CVE-2021-24457: Portfolio Responsive Gallery < 1.1.8 - Authenticated Blind SQL Injections

> Authenticated attackers can exploit SQL injection in the Portfolio Responsive Gallery plugin to read or modify database contents via the admin dashboard.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Aug 2021
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w399-vx6v-6gr5

## What is CVE-2021-24457?

CVE-2021-24457 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Ays Pro Portfolio Responsive Gallery, published on 2 Aug 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The get_portfolios() and get_portfolio_attributes() functions in the class-portfolio-responsive-gallery-list-table.php and class-portfolio-responsive-gallery-attributes-list-table.php files of the Portfolio Responsive Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.1.8 did not use whitelist or validate the orderby parameter before using it in SQL statements passed to the get_results() DB calls, leading to SQL injection issues in the admin dashboard

Weakness: CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24457?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ays-Pro Portfolio Responsive Gallery.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24457?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24457 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24457 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24457 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24457 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24457 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Ays Pro Portfolio Responsive Gallery, published on 2 Aug 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24457 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ays Pro Portfolio Responsive Gallery. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24457/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24457/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24457
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24457
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24457

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24457/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.