Stored cross-site scripting in Events Made Easy via width shortcode
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Events Made Easy plugin for WordPress is affected in all versions up to and including 3.3.1. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'width' shortcode attribute (CWE-79) let an authenticated attacker with contributor-level access or higher store arbitrary web scripts in pages. The scripts run in the browser of any user who opens an affected page.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
Description from the CNA
The Events Made Easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'width' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for Events Made Easy.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
Timeline
- 2026-10-30 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-118634
- 2026-10-30 Alias added: GHSA-48j7-7393-hxvm
- 2026-10-30 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-30 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb80d586-1f49-4497-93e4-f27b3c26c53c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-made-easy/tags/3.3.1/includes/eme-locations.php#L1902
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-made-easy/tags/3.3.1/includes/eme-locations.php#L1785
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-made-easy/tags/3.3.1/includes/eme-locations.php#L3089
- https://github.com/liedekef/events-made-easy/commit/c8f0e0a6134653ad9ddd82d89dc43dafd5d0b4b2
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3771828/events-made-easy/trunk/includes/eme-locations.php
More liedekef vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-53181 Events Made Easy <= 3.2.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion via 'wp_page_template' Event Property CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-75259 Stored cross-site scripting in Events Made Easy WordPress plugin CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-118634 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-118634 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-48j7-7393-hxvm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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