CVE-2024-10570: cleantalk login security, firewall, malware removal by cleantalk SQL Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-10570 is a high (CVSS 7.5) SQL Injection vulnerability in cleantalk login security, firewall, malware removal by cleantalk. EPSS estimates a 0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 26-11-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-04-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized SQL Injection due to an authorization bypass via reverse DNS spoofing on the checkWithoutToken function in all versions up to, and including, 2.145, as well as insufficient input sanitization and validation. 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.

• CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.