CVE-2026-14280
MediumCVSS 6.6Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk51th percentile - higher than 51% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Events Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to and including 7.3.7.4 via the em_options_save function. Authenticated attackers with administrator-level access can include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, leading to code execution or data exposure.
Risk Assessment
The risk includes full server compromise, data theft, and persistent integrity violations.
Recommendation
Immediately update the plugin to a patched version and restrict administrator access to trusted users.
Other vulnerabilities in Events Manager
See all- CVE-2026-18366Critical
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 plugin's own posts.
- CVE-2026-17089Medium
The Events Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'header_format' parameter in versions up to and including 7.4.0.1. Unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when a user clicks a crafted link.
- CVE-2026-10627Medium
The Events Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to and including 7.4.0. Unauthenticated attackers can view titles, dates, descriptions, and location details of events and locations marked as draft, pending, trashed, or private.
- CVE-2026-15023Medium
The Events Manager plugin for WordPress up to version 7.4.0 is vulnerable to SQL injection via the 'meta_key' parameter in the event/location duplicate action. Attackers with contributor-level access can append additional SQL queries to extract sensitive information from the database.
- CVE-2026-18057High
The Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.1 does not sanitize and escape a user-controlled value before using it in a SQL statement, allowing users with a subscriber account and above to perform SQL injection attacks and tamper with booking consent records belonging to other people.
- CVE-2026-66457High
Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Events Manager versions up to 7.4.1.
- CVE-2026-12987High
The Events Manager WordPress plugin before version 7.3.7 unsafely handles booking-registration data on sites using No-User-Account Booking Mode. A booker-supplied registration field is stored as booking meta and later deserialized without restricting allowed classes, enabling PHP object injection. The resulting gadget chain reaches a database query built without parameterization, so an unauthenticated attacker can read arbitrary database data (e.g., user password hashes, secret keys) when the booking is later loaded.
- CVE-2026-57713High
The Events Manager WordPress plugin contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability allowing object injection. This issue affects all versions up to and including 7.3.6.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 7.3.7.4 via the em_options_save function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where .php file types can be uploaded and included. The stored traversal key is subsequently executed via an include_once() call that fires on every admin_init invocation — including unauthenticated admin-ajax.php requests — meaning once the malicious key is stored by an administrator, the inclusion is triggered without any further authentication or capability check.