Rapid7

vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: community-events: CVE-2021-24496: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 2, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Community Events WordPress plugin before 1.4.8 does not sanitise, validate or escape its importrowscount and successimportcount GET parameters before outputting them back in an admin page, leading to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue which will be executed in the context of a logged in administrator

Solution

community-events-plugin-cve-2021-24496
Title
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