WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
The Events Calendar < 6.17.3.1 - Unauthenticated RCE via Widget 'classes' Map Callable Invocation
Description
The plugin is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via the parse_array function. This is due to insufficient validation of the widget 'classes' map, allowing a plain-array payload to bypass the is_safe_widget_instance() object check and reach the callable-invocation sink in Element_Classes::parse_array(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server. Exploitation requires that the targeted site has comments enabled on tribe_events posts and that at least one comment containing a crafted wp:legacy-widget block has been submitted, as the attack chain is triggered when do_blocks() processes the single-event HTML including the comment area.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
RCE
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Chloe Chamberland, Wordfence Argus
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-09-11 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-09-13 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-16 (about 9 hours ago)