CVE-2026-18366

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.5%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2026-08-12
Modified: 2026-08-26
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/82767ce2-01e4-46ad-a52b-72d3ab2049bd/

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