SQL Injection in Modern Events Calendar WordPress Plugin

The Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin before 7.37.0, Modern Event Calendar Pro WordPress plugin before 7.37.0 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, allowing authenticated users with minimal privileges (Subscriber and above) to perform SQL injection attacks.

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This CVE exploits attack patterns that Casky's 323matched skills already investigate — long before this vulnerability was disclosed. Claude's reasoning model maps these techniques to MITRE ATT&CK, so practitioners who ran these skills have already seen the threat behaviour in their findings.

Analysis

Modern Events Calendar Lite and Pro WordPress plugins before version 7.37.0 contain a critical SQL injection vulnerability in an unsanitized parameter. This flaw allows authenticated users—even those with minimal privileges like Subscribers—to execute arbitrary SQL queries against the WordPress database. The vulnerability matters because WordPress sites often store sensitive data including user credentials, personal information, and configuration details in their databases. Any site running affected plugin versions is at risk, particularly those with open registration or numerous user accounts, as the low privilege requirement dramatically expands the attack surface.

Casky's 323 mapped skills leverage Claude's extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns associated with this vulnerability across MITRE ATT&CK techniques TA0001 (Reconnaissance) and TA0043 (Reconnaissance). Practitioners using Casky would identify suspicious SQL query patterns in database logs, unusual database activity from low-privileged accounts, and abnormal parameter encoding in plugin requests. The platform's CWE-89 (SQL Injection) focus enables detection of telltale signs: unsanitized input flowing into SQL statements, lack of prepared statements in plugin code, and database error messages leaking schema information. When security teams analyze their findings, they'll see flagged attempts to enumerate database structure, extract user tables, or modify database contents originating from authenticated plugin interactions—all indicating active exploitation of this injection point before patching to version 7.37.0 or later.

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323 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

These skills use Claude AI's reasoning model to surface findings in the same attack categories as CVE-2026-96534.

Abuse of Public-Facing API: Mobile API Abuse

mobile security · low

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abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access

red teaming · high

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abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc

red teaming · high

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0001 TA0043

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