WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Community Events 1.4.9 - 1.5.9 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Event Submission Form
Description
The plugin 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.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
Submitter
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-27 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-10-27 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-28 (about 8 hours ago)