CVE-2026-78159 PUBLISHED

The Events Calendar <= 6.17.3 - Unauthenticated Code Injection to Remote Code Execution via Widget 'classes' Map Callable Invocation

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 23.08.2026 Published: 12.09.2026 Updated: 12.09.2026

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 6.17.3 via the parse_array function. This is due to insufficient validation of the widget 'classes' map, allowing a plain-array payload to bypass the is_safe_widget_instance() object check and reach the callable-invocation sink in Element_Classes::parse_array(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server. Exploitation requires that the targeted site has comments enabled on tribe_events posts and that at least one comment containing a crafted wp:legacy-widget block has been submitted, as the attack chain is triggered when do_blocks() processes the single-event HTML including the comment area.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor stellarwp
Product The Events Calendar
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 6.17.3 (incl.)

Credits

  • Chloe Chamberland finder
  • Wordfence Argus finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CWE