WordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar plugin <= 4.4.2 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in vCita.Com Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita: from n/a through 4.4.2.
- Published
- Jul 22, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.3% · 21th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-79
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Report tools
Action score
24
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 24 / 40 · 6.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.3%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 6.1
- CNA · Patchstack
- 7.1
- 1.0 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| vcita | online booking \& scheduling calendar | cpe:2.3:a:vcita:online_booking_\&_scheduling_calendar |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- vcita online booking & scheduling calendarbefore 4.4.3
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
vCita.com Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita
- n/a and later · up to and including 4.4.2affectedfixed in 4.4.3
Same product
vcita: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2025-67472WordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita plugin <= 4.5.5 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability35Monitor
- CVE-2025-54677WordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita Plugin <= 4.5.3 - Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability28Monitor
- CVE-2024-37499WordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress plugin <= 4.4.2 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability26Monitor
- CVE-2023-2416Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita <= 4.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Account Logout26Monitor
- CVE-2024-47638WordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress plugin <= 4.4.6 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability24Monitor
- CVE-2024-5791Appointment Booking and Online Scheduling <= 4.4.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting24Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| vCita.com Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita | 4.4.3 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2024-579131 days apartAppointment Booking and Online Scheduling <= 4.4.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting24Monitor
- CVE-2024-585931 days apartAppointment Booking and Online Scheduling <= 4.4.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting24Monitor
- CVE-2024-4763875 days apartWordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress plugin <= 4.4.6 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability24Monitor
- CVE-2023-39992322 days apartWordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita Plugin <= 4.3.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)24Monitor
- CVE-2023-2298415 days apartOnline Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita <= 4.3.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting24Monitor
- CVE-2024-3576131 days apartWordPress Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita plugin <= 4.4.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability21Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- A user must open a link or visit a page.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- low · data can be read
- Integrity
- low · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality impact
- Low
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
nvd-primary
Root cause
User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-79 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;Fixed
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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References
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