SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager <= 2.7.17 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Event Permalink Update
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the settings_save() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.17. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the permalink structure for the clubs
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-1178
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-c33g-4mp4-9vx4
References
More ThemeBoy Sportspress vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-03718 SportsPress < 2.7.22 - Admin+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
- TI-2021-06862 SportsPress < 2.7.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2024-23111 WordPress SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager plugin <= 2.7.20 - Broken Access Control vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
- TI-2020-10873 The SportsPress plugin before 2.7.2 for WordPress allows XSS. CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
- CVE-2024-1178 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-1178 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-c33g-4mp4-9vx4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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