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NVD CRITICAL: CVE-2026-78159 — The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execut...

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Executive Summary

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 6.17.3 via the parse_array function. This is due to insufficient validation of the widget 'classes' map, allowing a plain-array payload to bypass the is_safe_widget_instance() object check and reach the callable-invocation sink in Element_Classes::parse_array(). This makes it p

Analysis

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 6.17.3 via the parse_array function. This is due to insufficient validation of the widget 'classes' map, allowing a plain-array payload to bypass the is_safe_widget_instance() object check and reach the callable-invocation sink in Element_Classes::parse_array(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server. Exploitation requires that the targeted site has comments enabled on tribe_events posts and that at least one comment containing a crafted wp:legacy-widget block has been submitted, as the attack chain is triggered when do_blocks() processes the single-event HTML including the comment area. CVSS Score: 9.8. Published: 2026-09-12T08:16:24.377.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)
CVE-2026-78159
NVDMITRE CVE
Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Sep 12, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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