CVE-2024-6522

Aug. 7, 2024, 3:17 p.m.

Awaiting Analysis
CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

Products

Modern Events Calendar plugin for WordPress

  • up to 7.12.1

Source

security@wordfence.com

Tags

CVE-2024-6522 details

Published : Aug. 7, 2024, 11:15 a.m.
Last Modified : Aug. 7, 2024, 3:17 p.m.

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.

CVSS Score

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.5 9 10

Weakness

Weakness Name Description
CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

8.5

Exploitability Score

3.1

Impact Score

4.7

Base Severity

HIGH

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