CVE-2026-86794: Community Events cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
high 8.8 published 2026-10-29
- Affected versions
- 1.4.9 up to (not including) 1.6.0
- Fixed in
- 1.6.0
- Latest version
- 1.6.0
- Severity
- High · CVSS 8.8
- Active installs
- 30+
- Type
- Cross-site scripting (XSS)
What an attacker needs
- Access: None. No account or login is needed.
- Interaction: It also needs someone on the site (often an admin) to click a link, open a page or submit a form the attacker prepared.
CVSS vector (score by CISA ADP): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What to do now
- Update Community Events to 1.6.0 or newer: Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Community Events issue.
With WP-CLI:
wp plugin get community-events --field=version. - If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.
The advisory
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.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-86794 nvd.nist.gov
- WPScan advisory wpscan.com
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Where this data comes from
- CVE record, score and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Versions and install counts: wordpress.org/plugins/community-events (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- The summary, “what an attacker needs” and “what to do” sections are our plain-English reading of the record and the plugin's release history; the quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Email Daniel.