{"id":943351,"date":"2015-02-18T09:29:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/security-vulnerabilities-found\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T22:27:26","slug":"security-vulnerabilities-found","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/security-vulnerabilities-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Vulnerabilities Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently launched a site using Events Calendar Pro for a client. Their IT department ran a security scan using Acunetix software and it flagged several security vulnerabilities pointing to your plug-in.<\/p>\n<p>+ Cross site scripting<\/p>\n<p>+ jQuery Cross Site Scripting: The version of jQuery embedded within the plugin is outdated.<\/p>\n<p>+ HTML form without CSRF protection: CSRF protection must be added to forms by theme and plugin developers.<\/p>\n<p>+ Insecure transition: The page in question is embedded in the Events Calendar plugin that you\u2019ve installed, and does not post to your site but instead has a donation button that posts to Paypal.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the main issues, but I would be happy to share the PDF doc that outlines all the issues. I&#8217;d like to see if you all can help with a fix or update so I don&#8217;t have to customize the plugin in any way and stay within your versioning schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know and thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Leyden,<br \/>\nFulano Inc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-943351","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Security Vulnerabilities Found -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/security-vulnerabilities-found\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Security Vulnerabilities Found -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there, I&#8217;ve recently launched a site using Events Calendar Pro for a client. 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