Events Made Easy <= 3.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'width' Shortcode Attribute
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- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Events Made Easy plugin for WordPress is affected by this vulnerability. An authenticated user with contributor-level access or higher could inject malicious scripts into pages through a shortcode attribute, which would then run in the browsers of any visitor who opens the affected page.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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The Events Made Easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'width' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- liedekef Events Made Easy
through 3.3.1