WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Google Calendar Events < 3.2.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via shortcode

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
google-calendar-events
Fixed in 3.2.8

References

CVE
CVE-2023-49151
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/google-calendar-events/wordpress-google-calendar-events-plugin-3-2-6-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Abdi Pranata
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
b3d98c33-76fa-4c2b-b438-906702377fb8

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-11-28 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-12-12 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-12-18 (about 2 years ago)

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