The Events Calendar, CVE-2024-12118

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-12118
Home page URL: Security reports for The Events Calendar
Application: The Events Calendar
Published on: Jan 23, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions: max 6.9.1.
Status: vulnerable