# CVE-2024-6711: Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner < 2.3.8 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized parameters in the Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner plugin.

- **Severity:** Low 3.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 May 2025
- **Updated:** 13 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-chgf-rv7c-3x2f

## What is CVE-2024-6711?

CVE-2024-6711 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner, published on 15 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner WordPress plugin before 2.3.8 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6711?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Vollstart Event Tickets With Ticket Scanner.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-6711?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6711 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6711 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-6711 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner

- [CVE-2024-52427](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52427/): WordPress Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner plugin <= 2.3.11 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2024-35652](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35652/): WordPress Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner plugin <= 2.3.1 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-1762](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1762/): Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner < 2.5.4 - Arbitrary Tickets Deletion via CSRF (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6711 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6711 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner, published on 15 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-6711 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner. 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-2024-6711/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6711/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6711
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6711
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6711

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6711/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.