Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain Subscriber role + SupportCandy agent with 'Assign Agents'
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DeliverySubmit crafted 'sort_by' value in agent/ticket query
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ExploitBreak out of unprepared SQL via injection
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ExecutionTime-based blind inference of query results
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ImpactExfiltrate sensitive database contents
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Parameterized queries, prepared statements
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Persistence The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to simultaneously hold (1) a WordPress account at Subscriber level or higher AND (2) a SupportCandy Agent account explicitly configured with the 'Assign Agents' permission - this is a non-default, administrator-granted permission combination, which is the primary limiting factor. The injectable surface is the 'sort_by' parameter on agent/ticket-list queries in all versions up to and including 3.5.3, where the value is insufficiently escaped and the SQL query is not properly prepared. No user interaction beyond the attacker's own authenticated request is needed (UI:N), and the attack is remote over the network (AV:N), but it cannot be performed by anonymous or ordinary-subscriber users lacking the agent permission, which meaningfully constrains the realistic attacker population to trusted-but-malicious or compromised agent accounts. |
| Impact | This is a moderate, not top-tier, priority. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, base 6.5) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity attack but one that is NOT unauthenticated: PR:L confirms authentication is required. Crucially, the description reveals the privilege bar is higher than PR:L alone suggests - the attacker needs BOTH a Subscriber-level (or higher) WordPress account AND a SupportCandy Agent account carrying the non-default 'Assign Agents' permission. This dual, operator-granted prerequisite materially reduces real-world exploitability versus a plain authenticated flaw. Impact is confidentiality-only (C:H, I:N, A:N), consistent with a time-based blind SQL injection used for data extraction rather than modification or takeover. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or POC was provided in the input; per precision rules this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' There is no conflict between the CVSS vector and the description on attack vector (both network/web). The main caveat is that the dual-permission requirement is arguably under-weighted by the vendor's PR:L and S:U scoring - in practice this behaves closer to a privileged-insider or compromised-agent scenario. Net: patch on a normal cadence; it is not an emergency unless untrusted users are routinely granted SupportCandy agent permissions. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds (or has phished/registered) a low-privilege WordPress account that has additionally been granted a SupportCandy Agent role with the 'Assign Agents' permission submits a crafted value in the 'sort_by' parameter of an agent/ticket-list request. Because the parameter is concatenated into an unprepared SQL query, the attacker uses time-based blind techniques to infer and exfiltrate database contents such as user records and credentials. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data, so exploitation currently requires manual crafting of the injection. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 03, 2026
Time-based SQL injection in the SupportCandy - AI Customer Support Ticket System & Live Chatbot Agent WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to and including 3.5.3, lets an authenticated attacker inject SQL through the unsanitized 'sort_by' parameter and use deliberate query delays to extract sensitive data from the site's database. Exploitation is gated by a non-default permission combination: the attacker must hold both a WordPress Subscriber-or-higher account and a SupportCandy Agent account explicitly granted the 'Assign Agents' capability, which confines the realistic threat to trusted-but-malicious or compromised agent accounts rather than anonymous visitors. Per CVSS 3.1 (6.5, AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) the impact is confidentiality-only, and no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, with no CISA KEV listing.
RemediationAI
Upstream fix available (changeset/commit); released patched version not independently confirmed - the Wordfence advisory links a plugin SVN changeset (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3718257/supportcandy/trunk/includes/models/class-wpsc-agent.php), so administrators should treat any plugin build above 3.5.3 as the target and verify the changelog or the Wordfence entry (https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9c105a36-452e-4fa7-9c8b-f142e1eb27aa?source=cve) before assuming a tagged release is available; no vendor-released patched version number could be confirmed from the provided data. Because exploitation is blocked by the privilege requirement rather than by the vulnerability itself, the highest-value compensating control is to audit and, where operationally possible, remove the 'Assign Agents' capability from SupportCandy agent roles so that no non-administrative account holds it - the trade-off is that ticket assignment workflows must be handled by administrators instead, and legitimate helpdesk staff lose that function. In parallel, review WordPress users for Subscriber-level accounts that also map to SupportCandy agents (the exact dual-role combination the exploit requires) and remove or downgrade any that are not strictly necessary, accepting the operational cost of tighter staff provisioning. If neither can be applied immediately, restrict agent-account creation and password hygiene (enforce strong unique credentials and MFA) to reduce the chance that a compromised agent account becomes a database-read primitive, and monitor web and database logs for anomalous delay-inducing requests to plugin endpoints carrying suspicious 'sort_by' values - noting that time-based injection is best detected by response-time outliers rather than by payload signatures, so log correlation windows must be tuned accordingly.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a classic CWE-89 SQL injection rooted in string concatenation of a user-controlled sort parameter into a query that is never parameterized. SupportCandy builds its agent and ticket-list tables through WordPress's $wpdb layer, where the 'sort_by' value is passed into ORDER BY-style clauses; the referenced source locations (class-wpsc-functions.php line 279, class-wpsc-agent.php lines 370 and 578, and class-wpsc-ticket-list.php line 2367) show where the value is consumed without $wpdb->prepare() or strict allow-listing of column names. Because ORDER BY identifiers cannot be bound as parameters in the usual way, the plugin instead relies on escaping that proves insufficient, allowing an attacker to break out of the intended clause and append additional SQL. The advisory classifies the technique as time-based, meaning the attacker infers query results from response delays rather than reflected output, which makes the attack noisier but still viable against standard MySQL/MariaDB-backed WordPress installs. The CVSS vector (PR:L, UI:N, S:U, C:H/I:N/A:N) confirms the actor is an authenticated lower-privileged user, no victim interaction is needed, and the demonstrated impact is high-fidelity read access to database contents - credentials, ticket content, and other site data - with no assessed integrity or availability effect. The affected CPE (cpe:2.3:a:psmplugins:supportcandy_-_ai_customer_support_ticket_system_&_live_chatbot_agent) covers the full plugin line through 3.5.3.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Network-reachable web parameter (AV:N/AC:L) requiring an authenticated agent-permission account (PR:L); time-based blind SQLi yields data disclosure only, so C:H with I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).
CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence
DescriptionCVE.org
The SupportCandy - AI Customer Support Ticket System & Live Chatbot Agent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the 'sort_by' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.3 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 custom-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. Exploitation requires the authenticated attacker to hold both a Subscriber-level (or higher) WordPress role and a SupportCandy Agent account with the 'Assign Agents' permission configured.
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Attack Technique
SQL injection exploits the way applications construct database queries by mixing user input directly into SQL statements.
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