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CVE-2024-6271: community events vulnerability
CVE-2024-6271: medium vulnerability affecting community events. Check CVSS, KEV status, business impact and recommended administrator actions.
- CVSS
- 5.4 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 17.82%
- Known exploited
- not in KEV
- Product
- community events
What is known
The Community Events WordPress plugin before 1.5 does not have CSRF check in place when deleting events, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin delete arbitrary events via a CSRF attack
Business impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-6271, a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) affecting community events, may affect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the vulnerable environment. The exact impact depends on the installed version, exposed interfaces and deployment configuration.
Recommended administrator action
Confirm whether community events is present and compare installed versions with the vendor advisory and NVD record. Apply the vendor patch or documented mitigation; until remediation is complete, reduce exposure of affected interfaces, review relevant logs and monitor for indicators of exploitation. DataHouse can support version verification, managed patching, network exposure reduction, log review and backup validation for dedicated, cloud and colocated environments.