# CVE-2024-1316: Event Tickets and Registration < 5.8.1 - Contributor+ Arbitrary Events Access

> Contributors can leak the existence of private, draft, or protected events due to missing access controls in the Event Tickets plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wgfc-mmg5-p2xv

## What is CVE-2024-1316?

CVE-2024-1316 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Event Tickets and Registration, published on 4 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Event Tickets and Registration WordPress plugin before 5.8.1, Events Tickets Plus WordPress plugin before 5.9.1 does not prevent users with at least the contributor role from leaking the existence of certain events they shouldn't have access to. (e.g. draft, private, pending review, pw-protected, and trashed events).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1316?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Liquidweb Event Tickets.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-1316?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1316 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1316 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-1316 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Event Tickets and Registration

- [CVE-2019-16120](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16120/): Other in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-13457](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13457/): Event Tickets <= 5.18.1 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Sensitive Information Exposure (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-1319](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1319/): Event Tickets Plus < 5.9.1 - Contributor+ Attendees Lists Disclosure (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-1053](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1053/): Event Tickets and Registration <= 5.8.1 - Missing Authorization (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1316 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1316 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Event Tickets and Registration, published on 4 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-1316 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Event Tickets and Registration. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1316/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1316/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1316
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1316
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1316

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1316/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.