Modern Events Calendar <= 7.12.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server Side Request Forgery

8.5
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-6522
CVSS 8.5 (High)
Publicly Published August 6, 2024
Last Updated August 7, 2024
Researcher Foxyyy

Description

The Modern Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.12.1 via the 'mec_fes_form' AJAX function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

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Vulnerability Details for Modern Events Calendar

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modern-events-calendar
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.13.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 7.12.1
Patched Version
  • 7.13.0

1 other affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modern-events-calendar-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.13.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 7.12.1
Patched Version
  • 7.13.0

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