Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner

75 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With only 1,000 active installs, this is a niche plugin rather than a household name, though it shows healthy early traction and consistent user interest.

Update Freshness

25/25

Last updated on July 12, 2026, the plugin is clearly under active development with no signs of abandonment, which deserves the maximum maintenance score.

User Rating

14/15

A 94 out of 100 from 23 reviewers suggests strong user satisfaction, although the rating pool is small enough to treat it as encouraging rather than conclusive.

Support Health

8/15

With 1 support thread and 0 resolved (0 percent), support responsiveness is hard to verify and is a real concern worth flagging before committing to a paid deployment.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Tested with WordPress 7.0.1, requiring WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.1+, the plugin targets modern stacks only and earns a full compatibility score.

Scores higher than 41% of indexed plugins

About

Sell tickets with WooCommerce: seating plans, PDF tickets with QR codes, door scanner. No per-ticket service fees; free version up to 50 tickets.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.8/5

Last Updated 2026-09-27 5:31pm GMT

Requires WordPress 6.0+

Tested Up To 7.1.2

Requires PHP 8.1+

Security History

7 known vulnerabilities, all patched

1 Critical 1 High 5 Medium

Most recent: January 15, 2026

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Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner <= 2.8.5 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Critical

January 15, 2026 Patched in ["2.8.6"] CVE-2025-68015

Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner <= 2.5.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Ticket Deletion Medium

March 6, 2025 Patched in ["2.5.4"] CVE-2025-1762

Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner <= 2.4.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

December 5, 2024 Patched in ["2.4.4"] CVE-2024-9866

Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner <= 2.3.11 - Authenticated (Author+) Remote Code Execution High

November 15, 2024 Patched in ["2.3.12"] CVE-2024-52427

Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner <= 2.3.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

August 13, 2024 Patched in ["2.3.8"] CVE-2024-6711

Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner <= 2.3.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Medium

June 3, 2024 Patched in ["2.3.2"] CVE-2024-35652

Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner <= 1.5.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

August 18, 2023 Patched in ["1.5.5"]

What It Does

Event Tickets with Ticket Scanner extends WooCommerce into a full event ticketing system, letting you sell tickets as products, build visual seating plans, and issue PDF tickets with scannable QR codes. The companion scanner app handles door check-ins by validating those QR codes in real time. There are no per-ticket fees, so you keep the margin on every sale.

Who It's For

This plugin fits small to mid-sized venues running 10 to a few hundred attendees per event, such as theatres, conferences, comedy clubs, or churches that already use WooCommerce and want to avoid paying per-ticket commissions to larger platforms. It is also a strong fit for organizers who need an on-site scanning tool without investing in dedicated hardware.

Who Should Skip It

If you run large multi-day festivals with thousands of attendees, complex tiered pricing, or want deep CRM and marketing automation, you will outgrow this plugin quickly and should look at a dedicated ticketing platform. Likewise, anyone without an existing WooCommerce setup should not adopt WooCommerce just to use this tool.

The Bottom Line

For WooCommerce-based sellers who want to add ticket scanning and seating plans without paying per-ticket commissions, this is a capable, actively maintained option rated 94/100 by users. The main caveat is the tiny install base (1,000) and an unresolved support thread (0 of 1) that signal limited community help if something breaks. It is worth piloting on a smaller event before staking a busy season on it.

Pick Eventin if you want a broader all-in-one event management suite with calendar views, registration forms, and AI features beyond just ticketing.

Sugar Calendar – Events Calendar, Event Tickets, and Events Management Platform 79/100

Pick Sugar Calendar if your primary need is a clean recurring event calendar with light ticketing, rather than venue seating plans and QR scanning.