# CVE-2025-3761: My Tickets – Accessible Event Ticketing <= 2.0.16 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

> Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator due to insufficient access controls in the profile update function.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** 24 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4662-3xhc-rv2x

## What is CVE-2025-3761?

CVE-2025-3761 is a high-severity vulnerability in joedolson My Tickets – Accessible Event Ticketing, published on 24 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The My Tickets – Accessible Event Ticketing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.16. This is due to the mt_save_profile() function not appropriately restricting access to unauthorized users to update roles. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their role to that of an administrator.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3761?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-3761?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3761 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-3761 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3761 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-3761 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-3761 is a high-severity vulnerability in joedolson My Tickets – Accessible Event Ticketing, published on 24 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3761 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: joedolson My Tickets – Accessible Event Ticketing. 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-2025-3761/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3761/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3761
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3761
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-3761

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3761/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.