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Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.1.4 — Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection via time Parameter

CVE-2021-24946Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <6.1.5Update to 6.1.5 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Modern Events Calendar Lite modern-events-calendar-lite

  1. Affected< 6.1.5
  2. Patched in6.1.5

Update to 6.1.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 6.1.5. Version 6.1.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Modern Events Calendar Lite.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 6.1.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Modern Events Calendar Lite to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Krzysztof Zając.

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

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Modern Events Calendar Lite

All 26
More vulnerabilities in Modern Events Calendar Lite
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via mec_fes_csv_export
<7.37.0Update to 7.37.0
CVE-2026-96534
Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
<7.37.0Update to 7.37.0
CVE-2026-102499
Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure
≤7.36.0Update to 7.37.0
CVE-2026-110069
Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤7.36.3Update to 7.36.4
CVE-2026-110070
Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
≤7.36.0Update to 7.37.0
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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