Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.1.6 - Subscriber+ Category Add Leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-25046
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published December 3, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 6.2.0 alloed any logged-in user, even a subscriber user, may add a category whose parameters are incorrectly escaped in the admin panel, leading to stored XSS.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modern-events-calendar-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.1.6
Patched Version
  • 6.2.0
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