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WordPress Plugin: spider-event-calendar: CVE-2017-7719: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 10, 2017
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

SQL injection in the Spider Event Calendar (aka spider-event-calendar) plugin before 1.5.52 for WordPress is exploitable with the order_by parameter to calendar_functions.php or widget_Theme_functions.php, related to front_end/frontend_functions.php.

Solution

spider-event-calendar-plugin-cve-2017-7719
Title
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