CVE-2025-47494: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Local File Inclusion vulnerability (CVE-2025-47494) was discovered in Ashan Perera's EventON WordPress plugin, affecting versions through 2.4.1. The vulnerability was reported on April 28, 2025, and publicly disclosed on May 7, 2025. The issue stems from improper control of filename for Include/Require statements in PHP programming (Wiz, Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-98 (Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program). It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (High), with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This scoring indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires high attack complexity, needs low privileges, and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Wiz, NVD).

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to include local files of the target website and display their contents. Particularly sensitive files containing credentials, such as database configuration files, could be exposed, potentially leading to complete database compromise depending on the system configuration (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been fixed in EventON version 2.4.2. Users are advised to update to version 2.4.2 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-updates for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).