MDJM Event Management <= 1.7.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- MDJM Event Management
- Affected Version
<= 1.7.6- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
- CVE
CVE-2025-52824
At a glance
CVE-2025-52824 is a high-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the MDJM Event Management WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.7.6. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed June 2025, reported by 0xd4rk5id3.
Vulnerability Overview
The MDJM Event Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.6. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like password through the mdjm_validate_client_profile AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Reaching this weakness in MDJM Event Management <= 1.7.6 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.
Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for MDJM Event Management yet, so installs running <= 1.7.6 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in MDJM Event Management
- 8.8CVE-2026-15017: MDJM Event Management <= 1.7.8.4 Privilege Escalation
CVE-2026-15017 - 8.8CVE-2025-31074: MDJM Event Management <= 1.7.5.2 PHP Object Injection
CVE-2025-31074 - 7.2CVE-2026-7537: MDJM Event Management <= 1.7.8.3 Arbitrary File Upload
CVE-2026-7537 - 6.1CVE-2025-22714: MDJM Event Management <= 1.7.5.6 Reflected XSS
CVE-2025-22714 - 5.3CVE-2026-1650: MDJM Event Management Unauthenticated Arbitrary Custom
CVE-2026-1650
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