The Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.1 does not properly scope its capability mapping, discarding the access control decisions WordPress already made for unrelated privileged actions, which allows unauthenticated users to change the password of, escalate to Administrator, or delete any account whose user ID happens to match the ID of one of the Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.1's own posts.
History

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Events Manager Project
Events Manager Project events Manager
Wordpress
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Vendors & Products Events Manager Project
Events Manager Project events Manager
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-284

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-269
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Weaknesses CWE-284

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Description The Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.1 does not properly scope its capability mapping, discarding the access control decisions WordPress already made for unrelated privileged actions, which allows unauthenticated users to change the password of, escalate to Administrator, or delete any account whose user ID happens to match the ID of one of the Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.1's own posts.
Title Events Manager < 7.4.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-12T19:40:55.219Z

Reserved: 2026-07-30T09:24:44.643Z

Link: CVE-2026-18366

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-12T19:40:52.526Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-12T06:20:07.460

Modified: 2026-08-12T20:17:41.430

Link: CVE-2026-18366

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T10:30:04Z