# CVE-2024-5860: Tickera <= 3.5.2.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Susbcriber+) Ticket Deletion

> Authenticated subscribers can delete all event tickets due to missing capability checks in the Tickera WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3qj5-4m44-45xw

## What is CVE-2024-5860?

CVE-2024-5860 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events, published on 18 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Tickera – WordPress Event Ticketing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the tc_dl_delete_tickets AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.2.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete all tickets associated with events.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization), CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5860?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Tickera Tickera.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-5860?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5860 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-5860 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events

- [CVE-2024-10263](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10263/): Tickera – WordPress Event Ticketing <= 3.5.4.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2021-24797](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24797/): Tickera < 3.4.8.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-35729](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35729/): WordPress Tickera plugin <= 3.5.2.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2023-7252](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-7252/): Tickera < 3.5.2.5 - Ticket leakage through IDOR (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2022-4549](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4549/): Tickera < 3.5.1.0 - Plugin Data Deletion via CSRF (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5860 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-5860 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events, published on 18 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5860/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5860/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5860
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5860
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5860

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5860/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.