# CVE-2024-1071: Ultimatemember - SQLi

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-1071 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-1071

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Ultimatemember User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'sorting' parameter in versions 2.1.3 to 2.8.2 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.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-1071](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1071) is a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting the Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress. This flaw arises from inadequate input sanitization, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary SQL through the sorting parameter and potentially extract sensitive information from the database.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 16th of December 2024.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-1071 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Typical exploitation attempts target requests with manipulated sorting parameters intended to trigger SQL injection within the plugin.

## Timeline

- 2024-03-13: CVE Published. CVE-2024-1071 is published to NVD.
- 2024-12-16: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-1071 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2024-12-16: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-1071 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-1071.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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