magepeopleteam Event Booking Manager Plugin up to 5.3.7 on WordPress authorization

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in magepeopleteam Event Booking Manager Plugin up to 5.3.7. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation results in authorization. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-17166. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in magepeopleteam Event Booking Manager Plugin up to 5.3.7. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. This is going to have an impact on integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-17166 since 07/24/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/29/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-50098). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• magepeopleteam

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• Event Booking Manager Plugin

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• 5.3.0
• 5.3.1
• 5.3.2
• 5.3.3
• 5.3.4
• 5.3.5
• 5.3.6
• 5.3.7

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