Vulnerability · Published Nov 8, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-42078
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
PHP Event Calendar through 2021-11-04 allows persistent cross-site scripting (XSS), as demonstrated by the /server/ajax/events_manager.php title parameter. This can be exploited by an adversary in multiple ways, e.g., to perform actions on the page in the context of other users, or to deface the site.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2021-049.txt x_refsource_MISC
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Nov/24 x_refsource_MISC