Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-29434

Medium

Published: 20 May 2022

Published
20 May 2022
Modified
20 February 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0158 82.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-29434 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Spiffyplugins Spiffy Calendar. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) vulnerability in Spiffy Plugins Spiffy Calendar <= 4.9.0 at WordPress allows an attacker to edit or delete events.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

spiffyplugins
spiffy calendar
≤ 4.9.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions
addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

AC-3 Access Enforcement
addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

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