CVE-2025-11517: Event Tickets and Registration <= 5.26.5 - Unauthenticated Ticket Payment Bypass

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-10-18 · updated 2026-10-09
Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The Event Tickets and Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to payment bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.26.5. This is due to the /wp-json/tribe/tickets/v1/commerce/free/order endpoint not verifying that a ticket type should be free allowing the user to bypass the payment. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain access to paid tickets, without paying for them, causing a loss of revenue for the target.

Affected products

stellarwp Event Tickets and Registration: through 5.26.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3378214/event-tickets/tags/5.26.6/src/Tickets/Commerce/Gateways/Free/REST/Order_Endpoint.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/21cd8cb8-2a29-4b66-ab7a-8d8b2f85e2e0?source=cve

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