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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-6557
CVE-2023-6557:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress contains a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability (CVE-2023-6557) affecting all versions up to and including 6.2.8.2. The vulnerability was discovered in the route function that is hooked into wpajaxnoprivtribedropdown (NVD, WPScan).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in the route function that is hooked into wpajaxnoprivtribedropdown. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A5: Broken Access Control (WPScan).
Impact
The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to extract potentially sensitive data including post titles and IDs of pending, private and draft posts (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 6.2.9 of The Events Calendar plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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