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

Fixed in 6.17.3.1

References

Classification

Type
RCE
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Chloe Chamberland, Wordfence Argus
Verified
No

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)

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