The Events Calendar <= 6.15.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Draft Event Title/QR Code Exposure

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12175
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 30, 2025
Last Updated October 31, 2025
Researcher Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan)
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug the-events-calendar (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.15.9
Patched Version
  • 6.15.10
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