CVE-2025-14029: Community Events <= 1.5.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Event Approval via 'eventlist' Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-01-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Community Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_admin_event_approval() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to approve arbitrary events via the 'eventlist' parameter.

Affected products

jackdewey Community Events: through 1.5.6

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/community-events/tags/1.5.5/community-events.php#L160
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/community-events/tags/1.5.5/community-events.php#L64
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/community-events/trunk/community-events.php#L160
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3437116%40community-events&new=3437116%40community-events&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/098c3f4c-b6bc-462a-98ef-30e6a68d74cf?source=cve

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