CVE-2024-8016 (GCVE-0-2024-8016)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-30 06:52 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:45
VLAI
Title
The Events Calendar Pro <= 7.0.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution
Summary
The Events Calendar Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.2 via deserialization of untrusted input from the 'filters' parameter in widgets. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. The additional presence of a POP chain allows attackers to execute code remotely. In certain configurations, this can be exploitable by lower level users. We confirmed that this plugin installed with Elementor makes it possible for users with contributor-level access and above to exploit this issue.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-30 14:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2453 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
theeventscalendar The Events Calendar Pro Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.0.2 (semver)
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theeventscalendar events_calendar_pro Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.0.2 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:theeventscalendar:events_calendar_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
István Márton
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