Cross-site scripting in Event Calendar WD - Responsive Event Calendar plugin - CVE-2018-16164
Published: August 2, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19644
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16164
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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. The vulnerability allows remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
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.
Affected software
Event Calendar WD - Responsive Event Calendar plugin
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16164
Update to version 1.1.22.
Event Calendar WD - Responsive Event Calendar plugin - update to 1.1.22