CVE-2023-0144 Event Manager and Tickets Selling Plugin for WooCommerce < 3.8.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Contributors can inject malicious scripts via unescaped post meta, leading to stored XSS attacks against site visitors.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-0144?
CVE-2023-0144 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Event Manager and Tickets Selling Plugin for WooCommerce, published on 6 Feb 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Event Manager and Tickets Selling Plugin for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 3.8.0 does not validate and escape some of its post meta before outputting them back in a page/post, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0144?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mage-People Event Manager and Tickets Selling for Woocommerce.
How do I fix CVE-2023-0144?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0144 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2023-0144 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-0144 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Event Manager and Tickets Selling Plugin for WooCommerce
- CVE-2022-0478 Event Manager for WooCommerce < 3.5.8 - Contributor+ SQL Injection
- CVE-2024-24796 WordPress Event Manager for WooCommerce Plugin <= 4.1.1 is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection
- CVE-2024-43138 WordPress Event Manager and Tickets Selling Plugin for WooCommerce plugin <= 4.2.1 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability
- CVE-2025-5568 WpEvently <= 4.4.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2023-36383 WordPress Event Manager for WooCommerce Plugin <= 3.9.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-27g3-qf2q-r4wm.