Vulnerability · Published Sep 25, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-8275The Events Calendar <= 6.6.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity SQL injection in The Events Calendar from stellarwp. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 49.9% (higher than 99% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'order' parameter of the 'tribe_has_next_event' function in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.4 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. Only sites that have manually added tribe_has_next_event() will be vulnerable to this SQL injection.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| stellarwp | The Events Calendar | 0 – through 6.6.4 |
Weakness: CWE-89 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f59891c7-db1a-4688-8616-8877d7d7960d?source=cve
- https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/customizing-template-files-2-legacy/
- https://docs.theeventscalendar.com/reference/functions/tribe_has_next_event/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3152853%40the-events-calendar&new=3152853%40the-events-calendar&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file18