SB2025012850 - Stored cross-site scripting in Event Registration Calendar By vcita plugin for WordPress
Published: January 28, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11870)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the shortcodes. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-registration-calendar-by-vcita/trunk/core/shortcodes.php#L129
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-registration-calendar-by-vcita/trunk/core/shortcodes.php#L22
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-registration-calendar-by-vcita/trunk/core/shortcodes.php#L50
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/event-registration-calendar-by-vcita/trunk/core/shortcodes.php#L91
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e8cadb97-2f3e-4b00-ad00-118cf23d1592?source=cve