Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.1.6 - Missing Authorization to Stored Cross-Site Scripting and Settings Update

5.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2020-9459
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 27, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researchers Sean Murphy
Ram - Wordfence
Matt Rusnak

Description

Multiple Stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Webnus Modern Events Calendar Lite plugin through 5.1.6 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users (with minimal permissions) to inject arbitrary JavaScript, HTML, or CSS via Ajax actions. This affects mec_save_notifications and import_settings.

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Vulnerability Details for Modern Events Calendar Lite

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modern-events-calendar-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.1.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 5.1.7
Patched Version
  • 5.1.7

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