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CVE-2024-8701: Event Calendar <= 1.0.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The events-calendar WordPress plugin through 1.0.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

• events-calendar: through 1.0.4

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/707d4b5b-8efe-4010-ba7d-80538545a2d5/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/707d4b5b-8efe-4010-ba7d-80538545a2d5/

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