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.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-16 14:51
- First seenCVSS 9.8NVD modified 2026-10-16 05:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-navigation.php#L248
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-navigation.php#L260
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-output.php#L1622
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-search.php#L170
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-search.php#L221
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-shortcodes.php#L102
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3746389%40my-calendar&new=3746389%40my-calendar
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e8aa6ee7-525e-4458-9f5b-1e729afe448c?source=cve