The Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'header_format' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. The shortcode entry point sanitizes 'header_format' via wp_kses(), but the unauthenticated 'search_events_grouped' AJAX action bypasses this sanitization entirely, leaving the parameter unsanitized before it is echoed into the HTML body in output_grouped().
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.
Public exploits 1
- pwnVader/CVE-2026-17089-PoC-pwnVader PoC on GitHub
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.1NVD modified 2026-10-12 15:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 10
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.3.4/classes/em-events.php#L469
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.3.4/classes/em-object.php#L1176
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.3.4/em-actions.php#L891
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.3.4/em-actions.php#L920
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.4.0.1/classes/em-events.php#L469
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.4.0.1/classes/em-object.php#L1176
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.4.0.1/em-actions.php#L891
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.4.0.1/em-actions.php#L920
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/events-manager/tags/7.4.0.1&new_path=/events-manager/tags/7.4.1
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a56d1a9e-7564-41b0-af03-c272ffbbbb97?source=cve