CVE-2024-8701
Published: 15 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-8701 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Snumb130 Events Calendar. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 37.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-15231
Vulnerability details
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…
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multisite setup).
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The stored XSS vulnerability enables authenticated high-privilege users (admin+) to inject arbitrary JavaScript into calendar settings, which executes in the browsers of other users viewing the calendar list page, facilitating JavaScript command execution (T1059.007) and drive-by compromise via a legitimate but compromised site (T1189).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.