Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.7.14
- Affected Plugin
- RSVP and Event Management
- Affected Version
<= 2.7.13- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-12711
At a glance
CVE-2024-12711 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the RSVP and Event Management WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.7.13. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.7.14; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Lucio Sá.
Vulnerability Overview
The RSVP and Event Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on several AJAX functions like bulk_delete_attendees() and bulk_delete_questions() in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.13. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete questions and attendees and for authenticated users to update question menu orders.
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 privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
RSVP and Event Management <= 2.7.13 carries this weakness at bulk_delete_attendees(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For RSVP and Event Management the fix is 2.7.14: builds <= 2.7.13 are affected, anything from 2.7.14 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.7.14, or a newer patched version
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. None of that substitutes for the fix: RSVP and Event Management 2.7.14 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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