Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.1.6 - Missing Authorization to Stored Cross-Site Scripting and Settings Update

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2020-9459
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published February 27, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram, Sean Murphy, Matt Rusnak
Description

Multiple Stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Webnus Modern Events Calendar Lite plugin through 5.1.6 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users (with minimal permissions) to inject arbitrary JavaScript, HTML, or CSS via Ajax actions. This affects mec_save_notifications and import_settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modern-events-calendar-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1.7
Patched Version
  • 5.1.7
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