CVE-2023-2796EventON < 2.1.2 - Unauthenticated Event Access
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 42.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The EventON WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 lacks authentication and authorization in its eventon_ics_download ajax action, allowing unauthenticated visitors to access private and password protected Events by guessing their numeric id.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits3
Nuclei templates1 template
- EventON <= 2.1 - Missing Authorization (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-2796.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Wordpress Plugin EventON Calendar 4.4 - Unauthenticated Event Access (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51658webapps, phppublished 4 Aug 2023Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9ef793c-e5a3-4c55-beee-56b0909f7a0d (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 42.7% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
References
References2
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9ef793c-e5a3-4c55-beee-56b0909f7a0d (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173984/WordPress-EventON-Calendar-4.4-Insecure-Direct-Object-Reference.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-34252 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-2796)Record last updated .