WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2022-4036 Modified

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.

CVE / CNA score 5.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score 5.3 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Appointment Hour Booking
Plugin slug
appointment-hour-booking
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Nov 29, 2022
Weakness
CWE-804 — Guessable CAPTCHA
CWE-326 — Inadequate Encryption Strength

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

Primary and upstream sources