CVE-2024-0238 (GCVE-0-2024-0238)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-16 15:57
Modified
2025-06-02 15:09
Summary
The EventON Premium WordPress plugin before 4.5.6, EventON WordPress plugin before 2.2.8 do not have authorisation in an AJAX action, and does not ensure that the post to be updated belong to the plugin, allowing unauthenticated users to update arbitrary post metadata.
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