PT-2026-20362 · WordPress · Community Events

Huy Tran · Published 2026-02-18 · Updated 2026-02-18 · CVE-2026-1649

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Community Events plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.5.8

Description The Community Events plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting. This is due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of the ce venue name parameter. An authenticated attacker with administrator-level access or higher can inject malicious web scripts into pages. These scripts will then execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page.

Recommendations Update the Community Events plugin to version 1.5.8 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-1649

Affected Products

Community Events

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1649 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/152295 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c44232a9-7b97-449c-b584-ca3c26d63581?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3456114%40community-events&new=3456114%40community-events&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/44956 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2024049105983398016 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/community-events/tags/1.5.7/community-events.php#L779 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/community-events/tags/1.5.7/community-events.php#L1403 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/community-events/trunk/community-events.php#L1403 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2024136018182410710 · Twitter Post