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Event post, CVE-2025-2167

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-2167

Application

Event post

Published on
Mar 26, 2025
Research Description
The Event post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'events_list' shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 5.9.10.
Status
vulnerable