Appointment Hour Booking: A security weakness
Appointment Hour Booking is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Appointment Hour Booking
- Plugin slug
appointment-hour-booking- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 29, 2022
This CVE was published Nov 29, 2022 and is one of 12 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Appointment Hour Booking to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.72. This is due to the use of insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret that is also displayed to the user via a cookie.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N