Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-12175

Description

The The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'tec_qr_code_modal' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 6.15.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view draft event names and generate/view QR codes for them.

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Affected products

Theeventscalendar/The Events Calendarreferences2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=6.15.9
WordPress/The Events Calendarwp-canonicalize
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar

Patches

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References

github.com/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar/blob/main/src/Events/QR/QR_Code.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3386042/the-events-calendar/tags/6.15.10/src/Events/QR/QR_Code.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab844a05-80e0-42c7-981c-dea3a18cf4d5nvd

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