CVE-2021-24604

Availability Calendar < 1.2.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

MEDIUM
4.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 20, 2021 at 10:06 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:40 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAvailability Calendar

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Severity
MEDIUM4.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

Description

The Availability Calendar WordPress plugin before 1.2.2 does not sanitise or escape its Category Names before outputting them in page/post where the associated shortcode is embed, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.2.2
Affected range stops below 1.2.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-79

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