Description

WordPress Plugin Modern Events Calendar Lite is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently modify plugin's settings. WordPress Plugin Modern Events Calendar Lite version 5.1.6 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 5.1.8 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/02/site-takeover-campaign-exploits-multiple-zero-day-vulnerabilities/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/modern-events-calendar-lite/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2020-9459 CWE-264 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Authentication Bypass