# CVE-2026-41471: Easy PayPal Events & Tickets < 1.4 Information Disclosure via QR Code Endpoint

> Unauthenticated attackers can enumerate sequential post IDs to retrieve all customer order records from the Easy PayPal Events & Tickets WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.2 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 May 2026
- **Updated:** 26 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5vmw-2m2g-fj7w

## What is CVE-2026-41471?

CVE-2026-41471 is a high-severity vulnerability in Scott Paterson easy-paypal-events-tickets, published on 4 May 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Easy PayPal Events & Tickets plugin for WordPress before version 1.4 contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the QR code scanning endpoint that allows unauthenticated attackers to enumerate and retrieve all customer order records. Attackers can iterate over sequential WordPress post IDs through the scan_qr.php endpoint to harvest the complete set of orders stored in the database without requiring authentication or prior knowledge of specific order identifiers.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-41471?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-41471?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-41471 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-41471 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-41471 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-41471 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-41471 is a high-severity vulnerability in Scott Paterson easy-paypal-events-tickets, published on 4 May 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-41471 exists.

Affected product: Scott Paterson easy-paypal-events-tickets. 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-2026-41471/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-41471/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41471
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41471
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-41471

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-41471/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.