Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 2, 2026

CVE-2026-84740

Description

The Events Calendar WordPress plugin before 6.17.5.1 does not validate or sanitise data submitted to an unauthenticated AJAX action before merging it into its rendering context, allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site.

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Affected products

WordPress/The Events Calendarllm-fuzzy
Range: <6.17.5.1
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar

Patches

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/3381a51e-beaa-4420-a33b-6a68612a2e8a/nvd

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