vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wp-event-manager: CVE-2021-24810: 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
Feb 14, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The WP Event Manager WordPress plugin before 3.1.23 does not escape some of its Field Editor settings when outputting them, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Solution

wp-event-manager-plugin-cve-2021-24810
Title
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