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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-12118

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

Affected Products

Vendor: theeventscalendar

Product: The Events Calendar

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 24.22% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-21 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d67de4f2-b680-49f8-be95-c2464b70f7d0?source=cve
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

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