# CVE-2026-84745: The Events Calendar WordPress plugin REST API authorization bypass

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-84745-the-events-calendar-wordpress-plugin-rest-api-authorization  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-09-05. Updated: 2026-09-26  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-84745 · Severity: low · CVSS 2.7 · Published 2026-09-05

The Events Calendar is a popular WordPress plugin for managing events, venues, and organizer information. The plugin's REST API fails to properly check user permissions on unpublished content, allowing contributors (a low-privilege user role) to view draft, private, pending, and trashed events, venues, and organizers that they should not have access to. This exposes sensitive event details and organizational information that site owners intended to keep hidden.

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-84745 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-84745 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-84745?** Low severity, with a CVSS score of 2.7, published 5 September 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Modern Tribe The Events Calendar before 6.17.3.1.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-84745?** A patch was published on 2026-09-03: Fixed in version 6.17.3.1 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2026-84745 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a software library.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-84745?** Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Technical details

The vulnerability is an authorization bypass in the REST API endpoints (/tribe/events/v1/events, /tribe/events/v1/venues, /tribe/events/v1/organizers) that fails to restrict non-public content based on user capabilities. Contributors with default permissions can request unpublished records by either omitting the status parameter or explicitly requesting draft, private, pending, and trash statuses. The plugin incorrectly grants the relevant capability to contributors on activation, contrary to WordPress core's access controls which deny contributors access to unpublished content. The attack requires authentication (a valid contributor account) and network access to the REST API, and can be exploited via simple HTTP requests with credentials. The vulnerability was patched in version 6.17.3.1.

## Affected products

- Modern Tribe The Events Calendar before 6.17.3.1

## Timeline

- 2026-09-03: disclosed
- 2026-09-03: patched: Fixed in version 6.17.3.1

## References

- [https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf23ee00-322c-4443-a50d-a91f90d179aa/](https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf23ee00-322c-4443-a50d-a91f90d179aa/)