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 cores do_shortcode filter runs, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject a nested [my_calendar above=...] shortcode; mc_generate_calendar_nav() then splits the above attribute on commas and dispatches each element via call_user_func() 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 edit_user() — which PHP coerces to integer 1 as the $user_id 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 plugins auto-generated /my-calendar/ page, which is publicly accessible by default upon plugin activation.
Weakness
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/233.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/58.html
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-navigation.php#L248
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-navigation.php#L260
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-output.php#L1622
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-search.php#L170
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-search.php#L221
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-calendar/tags/3.8.6/my-calendar-shortcodes.php#L102
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=\u0026old=3746389%40my-calendar\u0026new=3746389%40my-calendar
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e8aa6ee7-525e-4458-9f5b-1e729afe448c?source=cve