CVE-2022-3720 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Event Monster WordPress plugin before 1.2.0 does not validate and escape some parameters before using them in SQL statements, which could lead to SQL Injection exploitable by high privilege users

Published: 2022-11-21

Score: 7.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Event Monster

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.2.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:awplife:event_monster:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-43077	The Event Monster WordPress plugin before 1.2.0 does not validate and escape some parameters before using them in SQL statements, which could lead to SQL Injection exploitable by high privilege users

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00746.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0139a23c-4896-4aef-ab56-dcf7f07f01e5

History

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Awplife Event Monster

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-30T15:32:41.083Z

Reserved: 2022-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3720

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:57.121Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-21T11:15:20.823

Modified: 2025-04-30T16:15:24.630

Link: CVE-2022-3720

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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