CVE-2025-14029
Community Events <= 1.5.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Event Approval via 'eventlist' Parameter
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
CISA's decision points: whether it is exploited, whether attacks can be automated, and how much control an attacker gets. Assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).What do these mean? →
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: yes
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Community Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_admin_event_approval() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to approve arbitrary events via the 'eventlist' parameter.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- jackdewey Community Events
through 1.5.6
References 5
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/community-events/trunk/community-events.php#L160
- browser/community-events/tags/1.5.5/community-events.php#L160
- browser/community-events/tags/1.5.5/community-events.php#L64
- changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3437116%40community-events&new=3437116%40community-events&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=