# CVE-2024-6205: PayPlus Payment Gateway < 6.6.9 - Unauthenticated SQLi

> Unauthenticated attackers can perform SQL injection via a WooCommerce API route in the PayPlus Payment Gateway plugin, potentially accessing or modifying database contents.

- **Severity:** High 7.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L`)
- **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:** 19 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h8w3-xwp6-m9v8

## What is CVE-2024-6205?

CVE-2024-6205 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown PayPlus Payment Gateway, published on 19 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 6.6.9 does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via a WooCommerce API route available to unauthenticated users, leading to an SQL injection vulnerability.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6205?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Payplus Payplus Payment Gateway.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-6205?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6205 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6205 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-6205 exists.

Public exploit code:

- This is a python written PoC of a recent vulnerability in a wordpress plugin. More information on that here (github_poc): https://github.com/j3r1ch0123/CVE-2024-6205
- PayPlus Payment Gateway < 6.6.9 - SQL Injection (nuclei): http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-6205.yaml

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown PayPlus Payment Gateway

- [CVE-2024-37459](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37459/): WordPress PayPlus Payment Gateway plugin <= 6.6.8 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6205 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6205 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown PayPlus Payment Gateway, published on 19 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-6205 exists.

Affected product: Unknown PayPlus Payment Gateway. 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-2024-6205/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6205/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6205
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6205
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6205

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6205/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.