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CVE-2024-1178: SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager <= 2.7.17 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Event Permalink Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the settings_save() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.17. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the permalink structure for the clubs

Affected products

• themeboy SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager: before 2.7.18 — fixed in 2.7.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: themeboy SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager 2.7.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3043889%40sportspress&new=3043889%40sportspress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/098dfee2-ba0b-420f-89ed-8ad1e41faec4?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3043889%40sportspress&new=3043889%40sportspress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/098dfee2-ba0b-420f-89ed-8ad1e41faec4?source=cve

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