WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2024-5207 Modified

#1 WordPress SMTP Plugin with Advanced Email Logging and Delivery Failure Notifications: SQL injection

#1 WordPress SMTP Plugin with Advanced Email Logging and Delivery Failure Notifications is affected by SQL injection. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.

CVE / CNA score 7.2 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
#1 WordPress SMTP Plugin with Advanced Email Logging and Delivery Failure Notifications
Plugin slug
post-smtp
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
May 30, 2024
Weakness
CWE-89 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

This CVE was published May 30, 2024 and is one of 27 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update #1 WordPress SMTP Plugin with Advanced Email Logging and Delivery Failure Notifications to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

The POST SMTP – The #1 WordPress SMTP Plugin with Advanced Email Logging and Delivery Failure Notifications plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the selected parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator access or higher to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Primary and upstream sources