---
id: "CVE-2026-86794"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-86794"]
title: "Community Events WordPress plugin: unauthenticated stored script injection into admin dashboard"
severity: "medium"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "other"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["community-events-plugin", "other", "self-hosted", "wordpress"]
not_affected_if: ["no-public-submissions", "plugin-not-installed", "version-1.6.0-or-later"]
published_at: "2026-10-29T06:17:24+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-29T06:53:14+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-29T06:54:34+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86794", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:14+00:00"}]
---

# Community Events WordPress plugin: unauthenticated stored script injection into admin dashboard

The Community Events WordPress plugin before 1.6.0 accepts public event submissions without authorisation or nonce checks and does not escape several submitted values. An unauthenticated visitor can store scripts that run in the browser of an administrator who reviews the submission.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## How to check

- Check the installed version of the Community Events plugin in the WordPress admin plugins list; versions before `1.6.0` are affected.
- Look for pending event submissions from unknown visitors in the plugin's admin pages.

## Fix

- Community Events plugin: move to `1.6.0` or later, per the source.

## Timeline

- 2026-10-29T06:53:14+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86794

## From the sources

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.

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