Check Point Advisories

WordPress Project SEO Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2024-6497)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2024-0638
Date Published: 1 Jan 2025
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Wednesday 01 January, 2025
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2024-6497
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? WordPress Project SEO Plugin 12.3.18 and prior
Vulnerability Description An SQL injection vulnerability exists for in SEO Plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation for the parameter.Successfully exploiting this vulnerability could result in SQL injection or, in the worst case, remote code execution in the context of the mysql user.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the WordPress Project SEO Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2024-6497) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  WordPress Enforcement Protection.
Attack Information:  WordPress Project SEO Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2024-6497)

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