Spiffy Calendar <= 4.9.8 - Insufficient Authorization

Incorrect Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-0855
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 12, 2024
Last Updated March 22, 2024
Researcher cyc707
Description

The Spiffy Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due insufficient restrictions on the event_author parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to make an event appear as though it was created by another user.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug spiffy-calendar (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.9.8
Patched Version
  • 4.9.9
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