CVE-2025-12498 Missing authorization in EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets
Authenticated subscribers can add notes to any booking due to missing capability checks in the EventPrime 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-2025-12498?
CVE-2025-12498 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in metagauss EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets, published on 8 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized booking note creation due to a missing capability check on the 'booking_add_notes' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add a note to the backend view of any booking.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12498?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12498?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12498 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-2025-12498 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12498 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4mg2-rgw7-wvrm.