CVE-2026-7525 Missing authorization in My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager
Authenticated attackers can bypass event moderation workflows to publish or alter event statuses without proper authorization.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-7525?
CVE-2026-7525 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in joedolson My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager, published on 14 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.9. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to bypass the moderation and approval workflow by tampering with the POST body to publish events or set other unauthorized statuses such as cancelled or private, in ways their role does not permit. While the UI correctly restricts low-privilege users to a draft-only submit button, this restriction is enforced only client-side, making it trivially bypassable by directly manipulating the POST request.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-7525?
How do I fix CVE-2026-7525?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-7525 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-7525 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-7525 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r5x2-7wrx-jqfg.