CVE-2026-104798
The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.7. The public `mcs` GET parameter is reflected into post content unsanitized before WordPress core's `do_shortcode` filter runs, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject a nested `[my_calendar above=...]` shortcode; `mc_generate_calendar_nav()` then splits the `above` attribute on commas and dispatches each element via `call_user_func()` with no authentication, authorization, or callable allowlist check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke arbitrary loaded PHP functions, enabling a call chain in which the shortcode `$params` array is passed to `edit_user()` — which PHP coerces to integer `1` as the `$user_id` argument — overwriting the credentials of the initial Administrator account (user ID 1) and granting the attacker full wp-admin access. Exploitation is trivially reachable via the plugin's auto-generated `/my-calendar/` page, which is publicly accessible by default upon plugin activation.
Properties
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
- Epss score
- 0.00891
- Cvss severity
- CRITICAL
- Cvss score
- 9.8
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:24:48+00:00
- Last source
- FIRST EPSS
- Score
- 9.8
- Cvss version
- 3.1
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-104798
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-18T13:39:03+00:00
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published at
- 2026-10-16T05:17:28.580
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16T18:17:20.360
- Epss percentile
- 0.58753
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