Medium severity · published Sep 9, 2026
CVE-2026-77186
My Calendar <= 3.8.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'fallback' Shortcode Attribute
6.4
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'fallback' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The bypass relies on hex-encoded shortcode attribute payloads (e.g. \x3cscript\x3e), which wp_kses_post cannot strip on save because they appear as literal backslash sequences rather than real HTML tags; WordPress core's shortcode_parse_atts() then calls stripcslashes() at render time, decoding the escapes into real angle brackets before they reach the unescaped sink.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 29% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MC
My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager · joedolson
through 3.8.3 · source: vendor
Affected product
MC
My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager
joedolson
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77186
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77186
github.com
https://github.com/joedolson/my-calendar/commit/89bbf7314fac84cdb89e520e8b7b6d69eee8dd3c
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/trunk/my-calendar-shortcodes.php#L114
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/trunk/my-calendar-widgets.php#L272
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/trunk/my-calendar.php#L556
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/62c8fb1f-6cba-43cc-8aca-70812c29a63d?source=cve
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