{"id":"CVE-2025-12976","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-12976","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:13:35.357Z","title":"The Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'events_list_grouped' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2.1 due to insufficient input…","description":"The Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'events_list_grouped' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2.1 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.","published":"2025-12-18T08:15:49.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:33:19.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00421,"percentile":0.3617,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.2.2.1/classes/em-events.php#L423","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.2.2.1/em-functions.php#L933","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.2.2.1/em-shortcode.php#L119","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/events-manager/tags/7.2.2.1/templates/templates/events-list-grouped.php","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3413776/","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/17e853b2-c7ab-478c-9c89-d8e3a42d1a42?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12976","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}