CVE-2024-6522 is a critical Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting the Modern Events Calendar plugin for WordPress, impacting all versions up to 7.12.1. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to force the web application to make requests to arbitrary internal or external locations. With a CVSS score of 9.6 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high confidentiality and integrity impacts, enabling attackers to query and modify internal service information. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it's not on the KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 7.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webnus:modern_events_calendar:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
< 7.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webnus:modern_events_calendar_lite:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 1.0 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.6 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.