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CVE-2024-6205: payplus payment gateway vulnerability
CVE-2024-6205: critical vulnerability affecting payplus payment gateway. Check CVSS, KEV status, business impact and recommended administrator actions.
- CVSS
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- EPSS
- 89.83%
- Known exploited
- not in KEV
- Product
- payplus payment gateway
What is known
The PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 6.6.9 does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement via a WooCommerce API route available to unauthenticated users, leading to an SQL injection vulnerability.
Business impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-6205, a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) affecting payplus payment gateway, may affect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the vulnerable environment. The exact impact depends on the installed version, exposed interfaces and deployment configuration.
Recommended administrator action
Confirm whether payplus payment gateway is present and compare installed versions with the vendor advisory and NVD record. Apply the vendor patch or documented mitigation; until remediation is complete, reduce exposure of affected interfaces, review relevant logs and monitor for indicators of exploitation. DataHouse can support version verification, managed patching, network exposure reduction, log review and backup validation for dedicated, cloud and colocated environments.