CVE-2024-50450 WordPress MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter plugin <= 1.3.3.4 - Bypass Vulnerability vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-50450?

CVE-2024-50450 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in RealMag777 MDTF, published on 28 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in RealMag777 MDTF wp-meta-data-filter-and-taxonomy-filter allows Code Injection.This issue affects MDTF: from n/a through <= 1.3.3.4.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50450?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Pluginus Wordpress Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50450?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-50450 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2024-50450 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-50450 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in RealMag777 MDTF

• CVE-2024-8624 MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter <= 1.3.3.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection Critical 9.9
• CVE-2021-20781 Cross-site request forgery in WordPress Meta Data Filter & Taxonomies Filter High 8.8
• CVE-2024-8623 MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter <= 1.3.3.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution High 7.3
• CVE-2024-29763 WordPress MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter plugin <= 1.3.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability High 7.1
• CVE-2024-12030 MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter <= 1.3.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection Medium 6.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-c8pf-2pv8-v359.