vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: modern-events-calendar-lite: CVE-2021-24687: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 6, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 5.22.2 does not escape some of its settings before outputting them in attributes, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Solution

modern-events-calendar-lite-plugin-cve-2021-24687
Title
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