CVE-2025-12356 Missing authorization in Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events
Authenticated subscribers can modify event and post statuses due to missing capability checks in the Tickera WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12356?
CVE-2025-12356 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events, published on 18 Feb 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_change_ticket_status' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update post/event statuses.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12356?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12356?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12356 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-12356 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12356 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mcrh-3qmp-x37p.