CVE-2025-5144

Summary

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-date-*’ parameters in all versions up to, and including, 6.13.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-79: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/56822fe5-352c-4269-9fab-d8c796362b74?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-events-calendar/tags/6.12.0.1/vendor/bootstrap-datepicker/js/bootstrap-datepicker.min.js
• https://github.com/uxsolutions/bootstrap-datepicker/blob/master/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js#L131
• https://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#data-api
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-events-calendar/tags/6.13.0/vendor/bootstrap-datepicker/js/bootstrap-datepicker.min.js
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3307301/

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