Community Events 1.4.9 - 1.5.9 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Event Submission Form

Summary

CVECVE-2026-86794
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerWPScan
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-10-29 06:17:24 UTC
Updated2026-10-29 06:17:24 UTC
DescriptionThe 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

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Unknown Community Events affected 1.4.9 1.6.0 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
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)

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