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WordPress Plugin: modern-events-calendar-lite: CVE-2021-25046: 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
Dec 3, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 6.2.0 alloed any logged-in user, even a subscriber user, may add a category whose parameters are incorrectly escaped in the admin panel, leading to stored XSS.

Solution

modern-events-calendar-lite-plugin-cve-2021-25046
Title
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