Medium severity · published Jul 29, 2026
CVE-2026-17166
Event Booking Manager for WooCommerce <= 5.3.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Site-Wide Payment Settings Modification via mep_save_payment_settings_modal AJAX Action
4.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Event Booking Manager for WooCommerce – Sell Tickets, Event Registration, RSVP & Event Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.7. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to modify site-wide payment settings — including WooCommerce payment enablement, cart redirect behavior, login requirements for checkout, confirmation page ID, and confirmed ticket statuses — that govern how all event bookings are processed.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 34% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EB
Event Booking Manager for WooCommerce – Sell Tickets, Event Registration, RSVP & Event Calendar · magepeopleteam
through 5.3.7 · source: vendor
Affected product
EB
Event Booking Manager for WooCommerce – Sell Tickets, Event Registration, RSVP & Event Calendar
magepeopleteam
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17166
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17166
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mage-eventpress/tags/5.3.7/admin/settings/global/admin_setting_panel.php#L1080
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mage-eventpress/tags/5.3.7/admin/settings/global/admin_setting_panel.php#L1120
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mage-eventpress/tags/5.3.7/admin/settings/global/admin_setting_panel.php#L25
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mage-eventpress/trunk/admin/settings/global/admin_setting_panel.php#L1080
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mage-eventpress/trunk/admin/settings/global/admin_setting_panel.php#L1120
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mage-eventpress/trunk/admin/settings/global/admin_setting_panel.php#L25
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