CVE-2026-84743: Unknown The Events Calendar

Low severity, CVSS 3.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Events Calendar WordPress plugin before 6.17.5 does not perform a per-object capability check on one family of its REST write routes, allowing users with a low-privilege role such as contributor to modify, unpublish, trash and take ownership of records belonging to other users, including administrators.

Affected products

• Unknown The Events Calendar: from 6.15.16.1, before 6.17.5 (fixed in 6.17.5)

Published 2026-09-23. Last modified 2026-09-23.