CVE-2023-1400: The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 6.5.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scrip

medium Affects modern-events-calendar-lite (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2023-03-27; advisory modified 2026-06-17.

The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 6.5.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scrip

Package: modern-events-calendar-lite (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: <6.5.2
Fixed in: 6.5.2
Severity: medium CVSS 4.8
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (42.8th percentile)
Published: 2023-03-27
Source: nvd

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