Modern Events Calendar <= 7.12.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server Side Request Forgery
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 7.13.0
- Affected Plugin
- Modern Events Calendar Lite
- Affected Version
<= 7.12.1- CVSS
- 8.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2024-6522
At a glance
CVE-2024-6522 is a high-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.12.1. It carries a CVSS score of 8.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 7.13.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2024, reported by Foxyyy.
Vulnerability Overview
The Modern Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.12.1 via the 'mec_fes_form' AJAX function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.
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.
CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 7.12.1 carries this weakness at mec_fes_form, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Server-side request forgery means the application fetches a URL supplied by the caller, turning the server into a proxy for requests the attacker could not make directly.
The request originates from inside the hosting network, which is how these flaws reach cloud metadata endpoints, internal admin panels and services that trust local traffic. For Modern Events Calendar Lite the fix is 7.13.0: builds <= 7.12.1 are affected, anything from 7.13.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 7.13.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Subscriber access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Modern Events Calendar Lite 7.13.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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CVE-2024-5441 - 8.8CVE-2021-24149: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.16.5 SQL Injection
CVE-2021-24149 - 7.5CVE-2026-11349: Modern Events Calendar (Lite & Pro) SQL Injection
CVE-2026-11349 - 7.5CVE-2021-24146: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.16.4 Events Export
CVE-2021-24146 - 7.2CVE-2021-24145: Modern Events Calendar Lite Arbitrary File Upload
CVE-2021-24145 - 6.4CVE-2022-30533: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.2.9 XSS
CVE-2022-30533 - 6.4CVE-2022-0364: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.3.0 Stored XSS
CVE-2022-0364
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