CVE-2021-24946 — Modern Events Calendar < 6.1.5 - Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection

Description

The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 6.1.5 does not sanitise and escape the time parameter before using it in a SQL statement in the mec_load_single_page AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users, leading to an unauthenticated SQL injection issue

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
—	Modern Events Calendar Lite	6.1.5 – < 6.1.5	6.1.5

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Metasploit 1 module

WordPress Modern Events Calendar SQLi Scanner
auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_modern_events_calendar_sqli

Exploit-DB 1

WordPress Plugin Modern Events Calendar V 6.1 - SQL Injection (Unauthenticated) EDB-50687 · webapps · Jan 27, 2022

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

WordPress Modern Events Calendar <6.1.5 - Blind SQL Injection http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-24946.yaml

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.