CVE-2025-11856
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Eventbee Ticketing Widget plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-11856) that affects all versions up to and including 1.0. The vulnerability was discovered by Muhammad Yudha and was publicly disclosed on November 10, 2025 (Wordfence, AttackerKB).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the 'eventbeeticketwidget' shortcode implementation where the plugin fails to properly sanitize user input and output of several parameters. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.4 (Medium), with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (Wordfence).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever any user accesses the compromised page (AttackerKB).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires authentication with at least contributor-level access to exploit. The attack complexity is considered low, as it involves injecting malicious scripts through the plugin's shortcode functionality (Wordfence).

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