Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.1.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via current_month_divider parameter

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24925
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published November 15, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 6.1.5 does not sanitise and escape the current_month_divider parameter of its mec_list_load_more AJAX call (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users) before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modern-events-calendar-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.1.0
Patched Version
  • 6.1.5
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