Vulnerability · Published Jan 20, 2023 · Assigned by tenable

CVE-2023-23491

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Quick Event Manager WordPress Plugin. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 31.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Nuclei

Official description

The Quick Event Manager WordPress Plugin, version < 9.7.5, is affected by a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the 'category' parameter of its 'qem_ajax_calendar' action.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a Quick Event Manager WordPress Plugin < 9.7.5

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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