CVE-2024-4742 is a SQL Injection vulnerability affecting the Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress, in all versions up to and including 1.2.5. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious SQL queries via the 'order_by' shortcode attribute, potentially extracting sensitive database information. The vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe risk. Its attack vector is network-based with low complexity, and successful exploitation can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite this, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kainelabs:youzify:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.