CVE-2025-12976 Cross-site scripting in Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via a shortcode, leading to script execution on victim pages.
- 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-2025-12976?
CVE-2025-12976 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in netweblogic Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!, published on 18 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'events_list_grouped' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12976?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12976?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12976 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-2025-12976 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12976 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7529-6mp2-xv5g.