Eventin <= 4.0.26 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-47539
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published May 7, 2025
Last Updated May 15, 2025
Researcher Denver Jackson
Description

The Event Manager, Events Calendar, Tickets, Registrations – Eventin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the import_items() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.26. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to import users that can have the administrator role leading to privilege escalation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-event-solution (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.26
Patched Version
  • 4.0.27
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