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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-12118
CVE-2024-12118:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (versions up to 6.9.0) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-12118) discovered in January 2025. The vulnerability exists in the Event Calendar Link Widget through the html_tag attribute due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) according to Wordfence, and 5.4 (Medium) according to NVD. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) and no user interaction (UI:N) in some scenarios (NVD, Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been patched in version 6.9.1 of The Events Calendar plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (Wordfence).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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