CVE-2024-1071 SQL injection in Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin

What is CVE-2024-1071?

CVE-2024-1071 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, published on 13 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'sorting' parameter in versions 2.1.3 to 2.8.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1071?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ultimatemember Ultimate Member.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1071?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1071 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2024-1071 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-1071 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module, 1 Nuclei template and 7 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin

• CVE-2020-36155 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-36157 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-36156 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.9
• CVE-2023-3460 Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-10270 Auth bypass in n/a High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-mh7h-gpmx-fggj.