# CVE-2024-9828: Taskbuilder < 3.0.5 - Admin+ SQL Injection

> Administrators can perform SQL injection attacks via the load_orders parameter in the Taskbuilder WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 9 Jan 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-97cw-cf8m-4xxc

## What is CVE-2024-9828?

CVE-2024-9828 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown Taskbuilder, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Taskbuilder  WordPress plugin before 3.0.5 does not sanitize user input into the 'load_orders' parameter and uses it in a SQL statement, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform SQL Injection attacks

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9828?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Taskbuilder Taskbuilder.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9828?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9828 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9828 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-9828 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Taskbuilder

- [CVE-2025-22716](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22716/): WordPress Taskbuilder Plugin <= 3.0.6 - SQL Injection vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2024-9831](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9831/): Taskbuilder < 3.0.9 - Admin+ SQL Injection (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2024-11930](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11930/): Cross-site scripting in Taskbuilder – Project Management & Task Management Tool With Kanban Board (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2022-3137](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3137/): TaskBuilder < 1.0.8 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS via SVG file upload (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9828 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9828 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Unknown Taskbuilder, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-9828 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Taskbuilder. 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-2024-9828/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9828/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9828
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9828
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9828

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9828/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.