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CVE-2024-9828: Taskbuilder < 3.0.5 - Admin+ SQL Injection

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 16/100)

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: 0.50% (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.
Fixed version: Unknown Taskbuilder 3.0.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Taskbuilder 3.0.5 or later.

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 Taskbuilder WordPress plugin before 3.0.5 does not sanitize user input into the 'load_orders' parameter and uses it in a SQL statement, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform SQL Injection attacks

MediumCVSS 4.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

SQL injection

Published: Nov 21, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.5% · 43th percentile
CWE: CWE-89

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 16 / 40 · 4.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
taskbuilder	taskbuilder	cpe:2.3:a:taskbuilder:taskbuilder

Affected versions

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

taskbuilder taskbuilderbefore 3.0.5

Versions reported by the vendor

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

Unknown Taskbuilder
- before 3.0.5affected · semver

Same product

taskbuilder: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-22716WordPress Taskbuilder Plugin <= 3.0.6 - SQL Injection vulnerability
35Monitor
CVE-2026-95599WordPress Taskbuilder plugin <= 6.0.5 - SQL Injection vulnerability
34Monitor
CVE-2026-52697WordPress Taskbuilder plugin <= 5.0.7 - SQL Injection vulnerability
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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-3137Oct 10, 2022 · TaskBuilder < 1.0.8 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS via SVG file upload
21Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-11930Jan 4, 2025 · Taskbuilder – WordPress Project & Task Management plugin <= 3.0.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via wppm_tasks Shortcode
21Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-39569Apr 17, 2025 · WordPress Taskbuilder plugin <= 4.0.1 - SQL Injection Vulnerability
34Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Unknown Taskbuilder	3.0.5	Vendor (CNA)

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

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Ryoma Yamadafinder
WPScancoordinator

Variant candidates

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

CVE-2025-2271661 days apartWordPress Taskbuilder Plugin <= 3.0.6 - SQL Injection vulnerability
35Monitor
CVE-2025-39569147 days apartWordPress Taskbuilder plugin <= 4.0.1 - SQL Injection Vulnerability
34Monitor
CVE-2024-9831175 days apartTaskbuilder < 3.0.9 - Admin+ 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: low · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality impact: Low
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:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

nvd-secondary

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

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

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