Spiffy Calendar: A security weakness
Spiffy Calendar is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Spiffy Calendar
- Plugin slug
spiffy-calendar- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 27, 2024
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Feb 27, 2024 and is one of 14 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Spiffy Calendar to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Spiffy Calendar WordPress plugin before 4.9.9 doesn't check the event_author parameter, and allows any user to alter it when creating an event, leading to deceiving users/admins that a page was created by a Contributor+.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N