CVE-2024-8493

The Events Calendar < 6.6.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS

The Events Calendar WordPress plugin before 6.6.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected

The Events Calendar

CVSS v3.1 CNA

4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 28th percentile

Published

2025-05-15

Updated

2025-05-17

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/561b3185-501a-4a75-b880-226b159c0431/

Security advisories

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/561b3185-501a-4a75-b880-226b159c0431

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry