CVE-2024-8701

Description

The events-calendar WordPress plugin through 1.0.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-09-11 | Published 2025-05-15 | Updated 2025-05-20 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Credits

Bob Matyas finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...rability/707d4b5b-8efe-4010-ba7d-80538545a2d5/ exploit

wpscan.com/...rability/707d4b5b-8efe-4010-ba7d-80538545a2d5/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org (CVE-2024-8701)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-8701)

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