Arbitrary JavaScript Injection in Event Booking Manager for WooCommerce Plugin
CVE-2026-16063

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Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Event Booking Manager For WooCommerce
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 August 2026

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

What is CVE-2026-16063?

The Event Booking Manager for WooCommerce, a popular WordPress plugin, is susceptible to a vulnerability that allows users with post-editing capabilities, such as Authors, to inject malicious JavaScript. This occurs because the plugin fails to properly sanitize or escape event timeline content before storing it and rendering it on public pages. Consequently, this oversight can lead to arbitrary code execution within the browsers of visiting users, potentially compromising their accounts and data, including those of administrative users.

Affected Version(s)

Event Booking Manager for WooCommerce 0 < 5.3.7

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2026-16063 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/96f20744-6751-40a3-92b7-...
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Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
WPScan
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