CVE-2026-77186 PUBLISHED

My Calendar <= 3.8.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'fallback' Shortcode Attribute

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 20.08.2026 Published: 09.09.2026 Updated: 09.09.2026

The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'fallback' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The bypass relies on hex-encoded shortcode attribute payloads (e.g. \x3cscript\x3e), which wp_kses_post cannot strip on save because they appear as literal backslash sequences rather than real HTML tags; WordPress core's shortcode_parse_atts() then calls stripcslashes() at render time, decoding the escapes into real angle brackets before they reach the unescaped sink.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.4

Product Status

Vendor joedolson
Product My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.8.3 (incl.)

Credits

  • Wordfence PRISM finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE