The Events Calendar <= 6.2.8.2 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-6557
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published January 12, 2024
Last Updated July 7, 2025
Researcher Nicolas Decayeux
Description

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.8.2 via the route function hooked into wp_ajax_nopriv_tribe_dropdown. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract potentially sensitive data including post titles and IDs of pending, private and draft posts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug the-events-calendar (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.2.8.2
Patched Version
  • 6.2.9
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