---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-25-012607"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CVM"
cik: "0000725363"
company_name: "CEL SCI CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:27:29.295667+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEL-SCI extends shareholder rights plan expiration to October 30, 2030

## Summary
- Board amended the Shareholder Rights Agreement on October 30, 2025.
- Rights plan originally adopted November 7, 2007; new expiration date is October 30, 2030.
- Full terms described in the Company's S-3 filed August 3, 2018.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-25-012607
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CVM
- cik: 0000725363
- company_name: CEL SCI CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/725363/000165495425012607/0001654954-25-012607-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/725363/000165495425012607/cvm_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-012607
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-012607.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-012607.txt

## Key facts
- Equity Issuances
  CEL SCI CORP issued securities.
  source text: On October 30, 2025, the Board of Directors of CEL-SCI Corporation (the "Company") amended its Shareholder Rights Agreement, originally adopted on November 7, 2007, to provide that the Shareholder Rights Agreement will now expire on October 30, 2030.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/725363/000165495425012607/0001654954-25-012607-index.htm

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