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CVE-2022-0418: Event List < 0.8.8 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Event List WordPress plugin before 0.8.8 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other admin even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products

• Event List: before 0.8.8 — fixed in 0.8.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Event List 0.8.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/74888a9f-fb75-443d-bb85-0120cbb764a0
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/74888a9f-fb75-443d-bb85-0120cbb764a0

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