CVE-2023-6005 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The EventON WordPress plugin before 4.5.5, EventON WordPress plugin before 2.2.7 does not sanitize and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Published: 2024-01-16

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

EventON

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 4.5.5

Unknown

EventON

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.2.7

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:myeventon:eventon::::::wordpress::*
	cpe:2.3:a:myeventon:eventon::::::wordpress::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00198.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fa4eea26-0611-4fa8-a947-f78ddf46a56a/

History

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Myeventon Eventon

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:57:01.802Z

Updated: 2025-06-20T17:21:14.381Z

Reserved: 2023-11-08T03:30:52.321Z

Link: CVE-2023-6005

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:25.169Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:13.530

Modified: 2025-06-20T18:15:24.067

Link: CVE-2023-6005

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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