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CVE-2025-12175
The Events Calendar <= 6.15.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Draft Event Title/QR Code Exposure
Medium4.3EPSS 0.24%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'tec_qr_code_modal' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 6.15.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view draft event names and generate/view QR codes for them.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
stellarwp · The Events Calendar
- affected ≤ 6.15.9
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab844a05-80e0-42c7-981c-dea3a18cf4d5?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar/blob/main/src/Events/QR/QR_Code.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3386042/the-events-calendar/tags/6.15.10/src/Events/QR/QR_Code.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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