CVE-2024-6270 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Community Events WordPress plugin before 1.5.1 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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00199.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Community Events Project	Community Events

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:community_events_project:community_events:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3d0a6edc-61e8-42fb-8b93-ef083146bd9c/

History

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:community_events_project:community_events::::::wordpress::*

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-08-05T06:00:07.727Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T13:22:38.228Z

Reserved: 2024-06-22T20:47:22.908Z

Link: CVE-2024-6270

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T13:17:31.054Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-08-05T06:16:41.520

Modified: 2025-06-12T16:59:44.880

Link: CVE-2024-6270

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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