{"id":33903,"date":"2025-04-30T06:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:05:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-05-12T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:19:13","slug":"cve-2025-3761-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-my-tickets-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3761-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-my-tickets-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-3761: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in My Tickets WordPress Plugin<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This article provides a detailed technical analysis of a notable cybersecurity vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-3761, that affects the popular WordPress plugin, My Tickets &#8211; Accessible Event Ticketing. The plugin, which is used widely across various WordPress-based websites for managing event ticketing, has been found to have a critical flaw that could potentially lead to significant security breaches. This vulnerability is particularly significant because it can enable an attacker with basic subscriber-level access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-58250-privilege-mishandling-vulnerability-in-pppd-s-passprompt-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"38444\">escalate<\/a> their privileges to an administrator level, thereby gaining full control over the victim&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-3761<br \/>\nSeverity: High, CVSS Severity Score: 8.8<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Remote<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Low (Subscriber level or above)<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/yale-new-haven-health-system-data-breach-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-a-cybersecurity-breach-impacting-5-5-million-patients\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"38828\">System compromise and potential data<\/a> leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3684006212\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47581-high-risk-deserialization-vulnerability-in-elbisnero-wordpress-events-calendar-registration-tickets-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"52591\">Tickets &#8211; Accessible Event<\/a> Ticketing | All versions up to and including 2.0.16<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploit takes advantage of inadequate access restrictions in the mt_save_profile() function in the My Tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3520-wordpress-avatar-plugin-arbitrary-file-deletion-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40759\">WordPress plugin<\/a>. This function is supposed to limit the ability to update user roles to only authorized users. However, due to a flaw in its implementation, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-25777-unauthorized-user-profile-access-in-codeastro-bus-ticket-booking-system\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"41344\">unauthorized users with a subscriber-level access<\/a> can invoke this function and update their roles. An authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request, thereby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-28237-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-worldcast-systems-ecreso-fm-dab-tv-transmitter\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40014\">escalating their privileges<\/a> to an administrator level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3238274450\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3200-unauthenticated-remote-attacker-exploiting-insecure-tls-protocols\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40819\">attacker might exploit<\/a> the vulnerability using an HTTP POST request similar to the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=mt_save_profile HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\nuser_id=10&amp;role=administrator<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this hypothetical example, the attacker sends a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-4829-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-totolink-http-post-request-handler\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"52592\">POST request<\/a> to the mt_save_profile action, indicating their user_id and specifying the role they wish to obtain (in this case, &#8220;administrator&#8221;). A successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32834-exploiting-telecontrol-server-basic-via-sql-injection\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"38827\">exploit would result in the server<\/a> updating the user&#8217;s role to the specified role, granting the attacker administrator privileges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-2594-critical-vulnerability-in-user-registration-membership-wordpress-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40470\">Users of the My Tickets &#8211; Accessible Event Ticketing WordPress<\/a> plugin are strongly urged to apply the vendor&#8217;s patch immediately. If unable to do so, users should consider implementing a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as a temporary mitigation measure. 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