CVE-2024-3552
Web Directory Free < 1.7.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- Published
- Jun 13, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 25, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- WPScan
- Evidence observed
- Aug 28, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.3%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
The Web Directory Free WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection with different techniques like UNION, Time-Based and Error-Based.
Sources
2Docker-based CTF challenge exploiting CVE-2024-3552 in a web directory plugin. Start with docker-compose up and exploit the vulnerable WordPress-like environment.
Proof-of-concept for CVE-2024-3552: SQL injection in WordPress Web Directory Free plugin (pre-1.7.0). Includes vulnerable code analysis, manual exploitation, and sqlmap automation for time-based blind injection.
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