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My Calendar <= 3.8.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'mcs' Parameter via Reflected Shortcode Injection into 'above' Attribute

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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.

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CVE-2026-104798

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-104798

My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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  {
    "vendor": "joedolson",
    "product": "My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.4.24"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.5",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.5.21"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.6",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.6.17"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.7",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.7.17"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.8",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.8.7"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
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CVE-2026-104798

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