CVE-2024-12025

published 2024-12-18

CVE-2024-12025: The Collapsing Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'taxonomy' parameter of the /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get REST…

Priority P1 80 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

ITW EXPLOIT VulnCheck KEV

The Collapsing Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'taxonomy' parameter of the /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get REST API in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
robfelty	collapsing_categories	<= 3.0.8	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get↗

other taxonomy parameter with SQL injection payload (e.g., taxonomy=8')

sigma

selection:
  - 'status_code == 200'
  - 'contains(body, "post_title")'
  - 'contains(content_type, "application/json")'

• → Monitor REST API requests to /wp-json/collapsing-categories/v1/get for anomalous or malformed 'taxonomy' parameter values, especially those containing SQL metacharacters (e.g., single quotes, UNION, SELECT keywords). ↗
• → Successful exploitation responses will return HTTP 200 with Content-Type application/json and a body containing 'post_title', indicating database content exfiltration.
• → The endpoint is unauthenticated — no session or nonce is required, so any source IP can trigger exploitation. Prioritize alerting on requests from unauthenticated sessions hitting this endpoint with SQL-like payloads. ↗

• · All versions up to and including 3.0.8 of the Collapsing Categories plugin are vulnerable. Ensure detection rules are scoped to sites running this plugin version range. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

vulncheck 7.5 HIGH

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