CVE-2024-13500: WP Project Manager <= 2.6.17 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via orderby Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘orderby’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.17 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 Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected products

wedevs Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker: before 2.6.18 — fixed in 2.6.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wedevs Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker 2.6.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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