Advanced Booking Calendar: Cross-site scripting
Advanced Booking Calendar is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Advanced Booking Calendar
- Plugin slug
advanced-booking-calendar- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 12, 2021
This CVE was published Apr 12, 2021 and is one of 7 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Advanced Booking Calendar to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Advanced Booking Calendar WordPress plugin before 1.6.7 did not sanitise the calId GET parameter in the "Seasons & Calendars" page before outputing it in an A tag, leading to a reflected XSS issue
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N