Description
The Eventin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.34. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity or capability prior to updating their details like email in the 'Eventin\Speaker\Api\SpeakerController::update_item' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.
Problem types
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Product status
Any version
Timeline
| 2025-05-15: | Discovered |
| 2025-05-15: | Vendor Notified |
| 2025-08-08: | Disclosed |
Credits
István Márton
References
www.wordfence.com/...-1da5-45e7-8a14-ce178099c0cc?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...aker/Api/SpeakerController.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...aker/Api/SpeakerController.php