Reflected XSS via unsanitized AJAX view data
Published Jun 4, 2024 · Updated Mar 18, 2025
Reflected XSS in The Events Calendar before 6.4.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute script through an unauthenticated AJAX request. The tribe_events_views_v2_fallback action passes attacker-controlled nested view_data values into AJAX-rendered output without adequate sanitization. Loading an attacker-controlled form is the gate; successful reflection executes script in the WordPress site's browser origin, enabling page-data access or same-origin actions as that visitor.
Summary
What happened
Reflected XSS in The Events Calendar before 6.4.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute script through an unauthenticated AJAX request. The tribe_events_views_v2_fallback action passes attacker-controlled nested view_data values into AJAX-rendered output without adequate sanitization. Loading an attacker-controlled form is the gate; successful reflection executes script in the WordPress site's browser origin, enabling page-data access or same-origin actions as that visitor.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-4180
- Published
- Jun 4, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 18, 2025
- Vendor
- Liquid Web
- Product
- The Events Calendar
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 4, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 18, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <6.4.0.1
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