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CVE-2024-13844: Post SMTP <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via columns Parameter

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 19/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.39% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
No fixed version is recorded, but the references include a patch (commit or PR) link.

Low priority for now. See the fix and affected versions sections below.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Post SMTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘columns’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

MediumCVSS 4.9 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

SQL injection

Published: Mar 8, 2025
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 34th percentile
CWE: CWE-89

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 19 / 40 · 4.9 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 4.9
CNA · Wordfence: 4.9; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
wpexperts	post smtp	cpe:2.3:a:wpexperts:post_smtp

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

wpexperts post smtpbefore 3.1.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

saadiqbal Post SMTP – Complete Email Deliverability and SMTP Solution with Email Logs, Alerts, Backup SMTP & Mobile App
- up to and including 3.1.2affected · semver

Same product

wpexperts: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2023-6875POST SMTP Mailer – Email log, Delivery Failure Notifications and Best Mail SMTP for WordPress <= 2.8.7 - Authorization Bypass via type connect-app API
66This week
CVE-2023-52233WordPress POST SMTP Mailer plugin <= 2.8.6 - Broken Access Control on API vulnerability
39Monitor
CVE-2025-22800WordPress Post SMTP plugin <= 2.9.11 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-52436Nov 18, 2024 · WordPress Post SMTP plugin <= 2.9.9 - SQL Injection vulnerability
28Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2025-0521Feb 18, 2025 · Post SMTP <= 3.0.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-48838Jun 15, 2026 · WordPress Post SMTP plugin <= 3.6.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

plugins.trac.wordpress.orgchangeset 3249371

Credits

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Nhien Phamfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2023-6620418 days apartPost SMTP < 2.8.7 - Admin+ SQL Injection
32Monitor
CVE-2024-52436110 days apartWordPress Post SMTP plugin <= 2.9.9 - SQL Injection vulnerability
28Monitor
CVE-2024-5207282 days apartPOST SMTP Mailer – Email log, Delivery Failure Notifications and Best Mail SMTP for WordPress <= 2.9.3 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection
28Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-89 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const owner = req.query.owner;
2const rows = await db.query(
3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'"
4);

Fixed

1const owner = req.query.owner;
2const rows = await db.query(
3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",
4  [owner]
5);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

gist.github.com/nhienit2010/d4692062f54b89e16aa068a0ef142cf6#file-postmanemailquerylog-php-L314

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