Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.7. The public mcs GET parameter is reflected into post content unsanitized before WordPress core's doshortcode filter runs, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject a nested [mycalendar above=...] shortcode; mcgeneratecalendarnav() then splits the above attribute on commas and dispatches each element via calluserfunc() with no authentication, authorization, or callable allowlist check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke arbitrary loaded PHP functions, enabling a call chain in which the shortcode $params array is passed to edituser() — which PHP coerces to integer 1 as the $userid argument — overwriting the credentials of the initial Administrator account (user ID 1) and granting the attacker full wp-admin access. Exploitation is trivially reachable via the plugin's auto-generated /my-calendar/ page, which is publicly accessible by default upon plugin activation.

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