PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin - SQLi (CVE-2024-6205)

CVE-2024-6205 is an SQL injection vulnerability affecting the PayPlus Payment Gateway plugin for WordPress, which arises from improper sanitization of parameters processed via an unauthenticated WooCommerce API route.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 15th of December 2023.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2024-6205 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations. CrowdSec network telemetry also shows that exploitation of CVE-2024-6205 has significantly declined over the past week. Attack volumes are well below the long-term average, suggesting attackers are rapidly losing interest. The vulnerability appears to be falling out of active use across most threat landscapes.

Exploitation attempts are characterized by requests containing the /wc-api=payplus_gateway&status_code=true&more_info=(select* pattern within the URL.