Vulnerability in The Events Calendar — CVE-2026-97285

What to do now

Update The Events Calendar to 6.17.5.1 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything up to and including 6.17.5

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in all versions up to, and including, 6.17.5. This is due to a missing capability check on a function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ed993ad9-b7a6-4f59-9802-8e3594139c51?source=api-prod

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ed993ad9-b7a6-4f59-9802-8e3594139c51
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