{"id":"CVE-2021-24480","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-24480","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:20:12.900Z","title":"The Event Geek WordPress plugin through 2.5.2 does not sanitise or escape its \"Use your own \" setting before outputting it in the page, leading to an authenticated (admin+) stored Cross-Site Scripting issue","description":"The Event Geek WordPress plugin through 2.5.2 does not sanitise or escape its \"Use your own \" setting before outputting it in the page, leading to an authenticated (admin+) stored Cross-Site Scripting issue","published":"2021-08-02T11:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:40:06.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["event geek project/event geek"],"epss":{"score":0.00613,"percentile":0.49087,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.61%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/243d417a-6fb9-4e17-9e12-a8c605f9af8a","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/243d417a-6fb9-4e17-9e12-a8c605f9af8a","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24480","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}