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CVE-2021-24813: Events Made Easy < 2.2.24 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-11-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Events Made Easy WordPress plugin before 2.2.24 does not sanitise and escape Custom Field Names, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

• Events Made Easy: before 2.2.24 — fixed in 2.2.24

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Events Made Easy 2.2.24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2607749/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a1fe0783-7a88-4d75-967f-cef970b73752
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2607749/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a1fe0783-7a88-4d75-967f-cef970b73752

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