CVE-2021-25049: Mobile Events Manager < 1.4.4 - 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: 2022-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Mobile Events Manager WordPress plugin before 1.4.4 does not sanitise and escape various of its settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

Mobile Events Manager: before 1.4.4 — fixed in 1.4.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mobile Events Manager 1.4.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2647987
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/227cbf50-59da-4f4c-85da-1959a108ae7e
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2647987
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/227cbf50-59da-4f4c-85da-1959a108ae7e

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