{"id":"CVE-2026-8898","aliases":["EUVD-2026-32070","GHSA-xfv5-wf8w-m5r8"],"status":"published","title":"Events In City \u003c= 3.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes","description":"The Events In City plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'org-events' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes (such as 'organizer_id', 'width', 'height', 'transparency', 'header', 'border', and 'layout') in the org_event_scode() function. The attribute values are concatenated directly into HTML attributes without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00235,"percentile":0.14584,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-05-27T05:31:24Z","modified":"2026-06-17T11:04:35Z","products":[{"vendor":"ruchit47","product":"events in city"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4281ad41-d9a4-4503-9238-24990641a9bf?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-in-city/tags/3.0/ae_org_widget.php#L156"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-in-city/tags/3.0/ae_org_widget.php#L144"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8898"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xfv5-wf8w-m5r8"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-8898","title":"Events In City \u003c= 3.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes","description":"The Events In City plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'org-events' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes (such as 'organizer_id', 'width', 'height', 'transparency', 'header', 'border', and 'layout') in the org_event_scode() function. The attribute values are concatenated directly into HTML attributes without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-27T05:31:24.69Z","modified":"2026-05-27T10:36:49.318Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:48:02.226896Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-32070","description":"The Events In City plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'org-events' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes (such as 'organizer_id', 'width', 'height', 'transparency', 'header', 'border', and 'layout') in the org_event_scode() function. The attribute values are concatenated directly into HTML attributes without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-27T05:31:24Z","modified":"2026-05-27T10:36:49Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:21:06.054612Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-xfv5-wf8w-m5r8","title":"The Events In City plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'org...","description":"The Events In City plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'org-events' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes (such as 'organizer_id', 'width', 'height', 'transparency', 'header', 'border', and 'layout') in the org_event_scode() function. The attribute values are concatenated directly into HTML attributes without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-27T09:31:14Z","modified":"2026-05-27T09:31:22Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:08:19.474205Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-8898","description":"The Events In City plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'org-events' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes (such as 'organizer_id', 'width', 'height', 'transparency', 'header', 'border', and 'layout') in the org_event_scode() function. The attribute values are concatenated directly into HTML attributes without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-27T07:16:17.963Z","modified":"2026-06-17T11:04:35.787Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:20.511562Z"}]}}