Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.22.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.22.3
- Affected Plugin
- Modern Events Calendar Lite
- Affected Version
<= 5.22.2- CVSS
- 5.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2021-24716
At a glance
CVE-2021-24716 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.22.2. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 5.22.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2021, reported by Shivam Rai.
Vulnerability Overview
The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 5.22.3 does not properly sanitize or escape values set by users with access to adjust settings withing wp-admin.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.22.2 takes any authenticated account. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Modern Events Calendar Lite the fix is 5.22.3: builds <= 5.22.2 are affected, anything from 5.22.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.22.3, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Modern Events Calendar Lite: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Modern Events Calendar Lite 5.22.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Same weakness class
- 6.4CVE-2022-30533: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.2.9 XSS
CVE-2022-30533 - 6.4CVE-2022-0364: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.3.0 Stored XSS
CVE-2022-0364 - 6.4CVE-2021-24147: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.16.4 Stored XSS
CVE-2021-24147 - 6.1CVE-2021-24925: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.1.0 Reflected XSS
CVE-2021-24925
Other vulnerabilities in Modern Events Calendar Lite
- 9.8CVE-2021-24946: Modern Events Calendar Lite Blind SQL Injection
CVE-2021-24946 - 8.8CVE-2024-5441: Modern Events Calendar <= 7.11.0 Arbitrary File Upload
CVE-2024-5441 - 8.8CVE-2021-24149: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.16.5 SQL Injection
CVE-2021-24149 - 8.5CVE-2024-6522: Modern Events Calendar <= 7.12.1 SSRF
CVE-2024-6522 - 7.5CVE-2026-11349: Modern Events Calendar (Lite & Pro) SQL Injection
CVE-2026-11349 - 7.5CVE-2021-24146: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.16.4 Events Export
CVE-2021-24146 - 7.2CVE-2021-24145: Modern Events Calendar Lite Arbitrary File Upload
CVE-2021-24145 - 5.9CVE-2021-4458: Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 6.3.0 SQL Injection
CVE-2021-4458
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