PT-2025-21522 · WordPress · The Events Calendar

Dmitry Ignatyev · Published 2025-05-15 · Updated 2025-06-04 · CVE-2024-8493

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The Events Calendar WordPress plugin versions prior to 6.6.4

Description: The issue allows high privilege users, such as admins, to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This is possible because some settings are not properly sanitised and escaped, and this vulnerability can be exploited even when the unfiltered html capability is disallowed, for example in a multisite setup.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 6.6.4, update to version 6.6.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-8493

Affected Products

The Events Calendar

References · 5

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/561b3185-501a-4a75-b880-226b159c0431 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8493 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1923119312589685225 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/124662 · Telegram Post