CVE-2024-12118
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
23/01/2025
Last modified:
31/01/2025
Description
The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Event Calendar Link Widget through the html_tag attribute in all versions up to, and including, 6.9.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:theeventscalendar:the_events_calendar:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 6.9.1 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-events-calendar/tags/6.8.1/src/Events/Integrations/Plugins/Elementor/Widgets/Event_Calendar_Link.php#L90
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3227009/the-events-calendar/tags/6.9.1/src/views/integrations/elementor/widgets/event-calendar-link.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d67de4f2-b680-49f8-be95-c2464b70f7d0?source=cve



