Vulnerability in joedolson My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Critical severity: CVSS 9.8

[ Description ]Official description

The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.7. The public `mcs` GET parameter is reflected into post content unsanitized before WordPress core's `do_shortcode` filter runs, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject a nested `[my_calendar above=...]` shortcode; `mc_generate_calendar_nav()` then splits the `above` attribute on commas and dispatches each element via `call_user_func()` with no authentication, authorization, or callable allowlist check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke arbitrary loaded PHP functions, enabling a call chain in which the shortcode `$params` array is passed to `edit_user()` — which PHP coerces to integer `1` as the `$user_id` argument — overwriting the credentials of the initial Administrator account (user ID 1) and granting the attacker full wp-admin access. Exploitation is trivially reachable via the plugin's auto-generated `/my-calendar/` page, which is publicly accessible by default upon plugin activation.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-navigation.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-navigation.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-output.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-search.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-search.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-shortcodes.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset
• www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e8aa6ee7-525e-4458-9f5b-1e729afe448c