Community Events 1.4.9 - 1.5.9 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Event Submission Form
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2026-86794 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | WPScan |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2026-10-29 06:17:24 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-10-29 06:17:24 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Vendor Declared Affected Products
| Source | Vendor | Product | Version | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | Unknown | Community Events | affected 1.4.9 1.6.0 semver | Not specified |
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| wpscan.com/vulnerability/058aa2e1-0b9c-431f-b0e4-4e93e4977a63 | [email protected] | wpscan.com | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
Vendor Comments And Credit
Discovery Credit
CNA: Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara (en)
CNA: WPScan (en)
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.