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CVE-2026-8608

The Event Monster – Event Management, Events Calendar, Tickets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in versions up to, and including, 2.1.0. This is due to the capture_payment() AJAX handler (registered via wp_ajax_nopriv_em_capture_payment) trusting client-supplied payment data — including transaction ID, amount, and payment status — without performing any server-side verification against the PayPal API or any other payment gateway, and without no

Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:ee792048759894b48b4444c4def92ec45305c4b2caaaefa86dd349605f7ddf4e

Known exploited

Not asserted

Disputed

Stale source

Conflicts

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Event Monster – Event Manager, Ticket Booking & Registration","vendor":"awordpresslife","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.1.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}

cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion

{"metric":{"baseScore":5.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
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CWE assertions

1 source assertion

{"cweId":"CWE-345","description":"CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
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Source references

5 source assertions

{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-monster/tags/2.0.1/includes/class-event-monster-ajax.php#L844"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-monster/tags/2.0.1/includes/class-event-monster-ajax.php#L890"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-monster/tags/2.0.1/includes/class-event-monster-ajax.php#L92"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3554570%40event-monster&new=3554570%40event-monster&sfp_email=&sfph_mail="}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/daddfbd2-cff4-4caa-bbdc-9945a635a1d6?source=cve"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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Attribution and limitations

CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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