The Community Events WordPress plugin before 1.6.0 does not have authorisation or nonce checks when processing public event submissions, and does not escape several of the submitted values before outputting them in the administration dashboard and on the public calendar, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute in the browser of an administrator reviewing the submission.

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Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-79

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:15:00 +0000

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Description The Community Events WordPress plugin before 1.6.0 does not have authorisation or nonce checks when processing public event submissions, and does not escape several of the submitted values before outputting them in the administration dashboard and on the public calendar, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute in the browser of an administrator reviewing the submission.
Title Community Events 1.4.9 - 1.5.9 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Event Submission Form
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-29T06:00:26.534Z

Reserved: 2026-09-08T12:06:19.649Z

Link: CVE-2026-86794

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-29T06:17:24.350

Modified: 2026-10-29T06:17:24.350

Link: CVE-2026-86794

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-29T07:45:14Z

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