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CVE-2021-24946

89
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-24946 is an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability affecting the Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin versions prior to 6.1.5. This critical flaw, with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands due to improper sanitization of the 'time' parameter in an AJAX action. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit modules for Metasploit and Nuclei, along with an ExploitDB entry, confirm readily available exploit code. Despite its high severity and ease of exploitation, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webnus:modern_events_calendar_lite:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
72.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: WordPress Modern Events Calendar SQLi Scanner · Dec 13, 2021
Nuclei: CVE-2021-24946 · Jan 2, 2023
ExploitDB: EDB-50687 · Jan 27, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7280 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/165742/WordPress-Modern-Events-Calendar-6.1-SQL-Injection.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
github.com / Hacker5preme/Exploits/tree/main/Wordpress/CVE-2021-24946
ExploitThird Party Advisory
wpscan.com / vulnerability/09871847-1d6a-4dfe-8a8c-f2f53ff87445
ExploitThird Party Advisory