Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessRegister or authenticate as Subscriber
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DeliveryCraft post-update request with arbitrary target post ID
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ExploitSubmit to vulnerable plugin endpoint
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ExecutionOverwrite title/content/excerpt without authorization
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ImpactDeface pages or inject malicious content
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a valid authenticated account at the Subscriber role or higher on a WordPress site running Modern Events Calendar Lite before 7.36.4 - achievable wherever open user self-registration is enabled. No admin or editor privileges are needed and no victim interaction is required (UI:N). The exploit targets the plugin's post-update handler, which fails to verify ownership of the referenced post ID, so any post/page/custom-post-type is reachable regardless of author. Limiting factors: the attacker must hold at least Subscriber credentials (PR:L), the vulnerable plugin must be installed and below 7.36.4, and impact is confined to content integrity (no data disclosure or denial of service). |
| Impact | Signals point to a genuine but moderate-priority issue rather than an emergency. The CVSS 3.1 base of 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N) reflects an integrity-only impact: a low-privileged, authenticated attacker can remotely tamper with content but cannot read protected data or cause downtime. CISA's SSVC framework aligns with lower urgency - Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, Technical Impact: partial - consistent with the absence of any CISA KEV listing. However, publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan), so the barrier to abuse is low once an attacker holds a Subscriber account. No EPSS score was provided, so probabilistic exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified here. The key tension is POC-available-but-not-actively-exploited: public exploit code raises opportunistic risk, yet SSVC Exploitation:none and the lack of KEV indicate it is not yet weaponized at scale. Net: patch promptly, especially on sites that allow open user registration, but this is not a drop-everything critical. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker registers (or uses) a low-privilege Subscriber account on a WordPress site running Modern Events Calendar Lite before 7.36.4 and issues a crafted post-update request referencing another user's post ID. Because the plugin never checks that the requester is authorized to edit the target object, the attacker overwrites the title, content, and excerpt of arbitrary posts, pages, or custom post types. Publicly available exploit code from WPScan lowers the effort required, and the low attack complexity (AC:L) and network vector (AV:N) make the action straightforward once authenticated. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 18, 2026
Authenticated Subscriber-level users on WordPress sites running Modern Events Calendar Lite before 7.36.4 can modify the title, content, and excerpt of arbitrary posts, pages, and custom post types because the plugin's post-update handler fails to verify ownership of the target post ID (CWE-639). This integrity-only authorization bypass (CVSS 6.5, PR:L, UI:N) requires only a low-privilege account obtainable where self-registration is enabled; publicly available exploit code exists, but CISA SSVC records no exploitation and the issue is a moderate-priority content-tampering risk rather than an emergency.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Modern Events Calendar Lite to version 7.36.4 or later; the vendor has released a patch for this authorization bypass. If an immediate upgrade is not possible, reduce exposure by disabling open user self-registration and auditing or removing unnecessary Subscriber accounts, because the exploit requires an authenticated Subscriber-or-higher account but no victim interaction. Also review recent changes to posts, pages, and custom post types for unauthorized title, content, or excerpt modifications, and consult the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4c7ff021-da5b-44ff-ac99-142b5bdc0790/ or the NVD entry at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-110070 for updates; no active exploitation is confirmed, though public exploit code is available.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Modern Events Calendar Lite is a WordPress event-management plugin that registers custom post types and exposes handlers for creating and updating events. The vulnerable update path trusts a user-supplied post ID and performs the update without a current_user_can('edit_post', $id) capability check or an author/ownership comparison, which is CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key). As a result, any authenticated account at the Subscriber role-the lowest standard WordPress role-can target posts, pages, or custom post types owned by other users and alter stored title, content, and excerpt fields. The CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N matches network exploitation with low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, and high integrity impact only; CPE cpe:2.3:a:unknown:modern_events_calendar_lite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* identifies the plugin, and EUVD lists affected versions as 0 <7.36.4.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Authenticated Subscriber access gives PR:L over the network with low complexity; broad content tampering of arbitrary posts yields I:H, with no read or availability impact (C:N/A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 7.36.4 does not verify that a user is authorized to edit the target post before updating it, allowing authenticated users with the Subscriber role to modify the title, content, and excerpt of arbitrary posts, pages, and custom post types created by other users.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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