CVE-2023-6046 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The EventON WordPress plugin before 2.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored HTML Injection attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

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 poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Myeventon	Eventon

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-58303	The EventON WordPress plugin before 2.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored HTML Injection attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/97f1d403-ae96-4c90-8d47-9822f4d68033/

History

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:54:15.535Z

Updated: 2025-06-13T19:10:24.185Z

Reserved: 2023-11-09T03:06:30.565Z

Link: CVE-2023-6046

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:21:17.064Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:13.580

Modified: 2025-06-13T20:15:22.677

Link: CVE-2023-6046

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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