CVE-2024-13431

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the accent_color and background parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.8.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVSS v3 6.1 MEDIUM

6.1^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-schedule-appointments/trunk/booking-app-new/iframe-inner.php#L182	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-schedule-appointments/trunk/booking-app-new/iframe-inner.php#L189	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3246760/simply-schedule-appointments/trunk/booking-app-new/iframe-inner.php	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f6e3e5dd-b9f1-4d24-98cc-b6ab319434e4?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:nsquared:appointment_booking_calendar:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-03-07 09:15

Updated : 2025-03-13 17:49

NVD link : CVE-2024-13431

Mitre link : CVE-2024-13431

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-13431

JSON object : View

Products Affected

nsquared

appointment_booking_calendar

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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