CVE-2026-42689

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.

SQL Injection vulnerability in Events Manager plugin up to version 7.4.6, requiring subscriber privileges. Allows a user with subscriber role to inject malicious SQL queries into the database.

An Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Pixelite Events Manager events-manager allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects Events Manager from n/a through 7.4.5.

The Events Manager WordPress plugin before 7.4.5 does not force the scope of its logged-in event and location search when a caller supplies their own owner value, letting a low-privileged user read other accounts' unpublished, pending or trashed event and venue content, including full street addresses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Pixelite Events Manager events-manager allows Reflected XSS. This issue affects Events Manager: from n/a through 7.4.2.