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CVE-2023-6243: EventON PRO - WordPress Virtual Event Calendar Plugin <= 4.6.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via admin_test_email

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The EventON PRO - WordPress Virtual Event Calendar Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the admin_test_email function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send test emails to arbitrary email addresses via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• ashanjay EventON – Events Calendar: before 4.7 — fixed in 4.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ashanjay EventON – Events Calendar 4.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.myeventon.com/documentations/eventon-changelog/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3017939%40eventon-lite&new=3017939%40eventon-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1d0a40f8-4c31-447d-ac28-73cfe7a07687?source=cve

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