The Eventin – Event Calendar, Tickets, Registration, Booking & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Eventin – Event Calendar, Tickets, Registration, Booking & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.23. This is due to the PermissionManager::manage_permissions() function being registered as a callback on WordPress core's map_meta_cap filter and unconditionally returning the always-true 'exist' primitive for every capability check whenever the evaluated user ID is 1, without scoping this behavior to plugin-specific capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers whose account is user ID 1, even subscribers, to pass every WordPress capability check, including manage_options, edit_plugins, edit_themes, promote_users, and update_core, thereby elevating their privileges to administrator-equivalent power and achieving full site takeover, including remote code execution via the plugin and theme editors. Exploitation is only impactful when user ID 1 has been deliberately demoted to a lower-privilege role as a common administrator-account hardening practice; on default installations where user ID 1 retains the administrator role, no incremental privilege gain occurs.
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75983
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-event-solution/tags/4.1.21/core/AccessControl/PermissionManager.php#L24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-event-solution/tags/4.1.21/core/AccessControl/PermissionManager.php#L52
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-event-solution/tags/4.1.21/core/Admin/AdminProvider.php#L32
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3689867%40wp-event-solution&new=3689867%40wp-event-solution
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff48db43-9cfa-4dab-b25e-bbc211121f6c?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4pw8-cp9g-3xr7