CVE-2025-6976 Events Manager <= 7.0.3 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin Shortcodes
Authenticated attackers with contributor access can inject arbitrary scripts via plugin shortcodes, leading to stored XSS 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-2025-6976?
CVE-2025-6976 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in netweblogic Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!, published on 9 Jul 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 shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.3 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-2025-6976?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pixelite Events Manager.
How do I fix CVE-2025-6976?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6976 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-2025-6976 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6976 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in netweblogic Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!
- CVE-2015-9298 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-2025-6970 Events Manager <= 7.0.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via `orderby` Parameter
- CVE-2024-11260 SQL injection in Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!
- CVE-2020-35012 Events Manager < 5.9.8 - Admin+ SQL Injection
- CVE-2023-48326 WordPress Events Manager Plugin <= 6.4.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-855m-48qm-7x6j.