Event List <= 2.0.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-6366
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published August 25, 2025
Last Updated August 26, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

The Event List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.4. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's capabilities prior to updating their profile in the el_update_profile() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change their capabilities to those of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug eventlist (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.4
Patched Version
  • 2.0.5
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