CVE-2024-0238 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The EventON Premium WordPress plugin before 4.5.6, EventON WordPress plugin before 2.2.8 do not have authorisation in an AJAX action, and does not ensure that the post to be updated belong to the plugin, allowing unauthenticated users to update arbitrary post metadata.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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 0.00727.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Myeventon	Eventon

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-16036	The EventON Premium WordPress plugin before 4.5.6, EventON WordPress plugin before 2.2.8 do not have authorisation in an AJAX action, and does not ensure that the post to be updated belong to the plugin, allowing unauthenticated users to update arbitrary post metadata.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/774655ac-b201-4d9f-8790-9eff8564bc91/

History

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:57:05.090Z

Updated: 2025-06-02T15:09:17.461Z

Reserved: 2024-01-04T14:47:37.931Z

Link: CVE-2024-0238

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:41:16.126Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:14.467

Modified: 2025-06-02T15:15:26.457

Link: CVE-2024-0238

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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