XSS in Apexws Pie Calendar – Events Made Simple

CVE-2025-1410

The Events Calendar Made Simple – Pie Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's piecal shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (20.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-1410?
CVE-2025-1410 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apexws Pie Calendar – Events Made Simple, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-02-21.
How severe is CVE-2025-1410?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-1410 known to be exploited?
3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.