CVE-2021-24687 (GCVE-0-2021-24687)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-04 11:20 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:42
VLAI?
Title
Modern Events Calendar Lite < 5.22.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 5.22.2 does not escape some of its settings before outputting them in attributes, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
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CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Modern Events Calendar Lite Affected: 5.22.2 , < 5.22.2 (custom)
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Credits
Shivam Rai
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