# CVE-2024-3495: Country State City Dropdown CF7 - SQLi

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-3495 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-2024-3495

## 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:** Trustyplugins Country State City Dropdown CF7
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))
- **Tags:** wordpress, cms

## Description

The Country State City Dropdown CF7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the ‘cnt’ and 'sid' parameters in versions up to, and including, 2.7.2 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-2024-3495](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3495) is a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the Country State City Dropdown CF7 WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to and including 2.7.2. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to manipulate the 'cnt' and 'sid' parameters, enabling them to execute arbitrary SQL queries and potentially extract sensitive information from the database. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to significant data breaches or compromise of the affected WordPress site.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 25th of February 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-3495 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit the `/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php` endpoint by injecting malicious SQL payloads into the `sid` parameter, often using the `action=tc_csca_get_cities` value to trigger the vulnerable code path in the Country State City Dropdown CF7 plugin.

## Timeline

- 2024-05-22: CVE Published. CVE-2024-3495 is published to NVD.
- 2026-02-25: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-3495 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-02-25: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-3495 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-3495.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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