# CVE-2025-8091: EventON Lite <= 2.4.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Disclosure

> Attackers can extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts via shortcodes in the EventON Lite WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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:** 15 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f8wx-84f3-pjp7

## What is CVE-2025-8091?

CVE-2025-8091 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ashanjay EventON – Events Calendar, published on 15 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The EventON Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions less than, or equal to, 2.4.6 via the add_single_eventon and add_eventon shortcodes due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8091?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-8091?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8091 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-8091 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8091 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Disclosure for CVE-2025-8091 (github_poc): https://github.com/MooseLoveti/EventON-Lite-CVE-Report

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-8091 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-8091 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ashanjay EventON – Events Calendar, published on 15 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8091 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ashanjay EventON – Events Calendar. 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-2025-8091/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8091/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8091
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8091
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-8091

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8091/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.