Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia: A security weakness
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 09, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jan 09, 2026 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to missing capability checks on multiple AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.38. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to mark payments as refunded, trigger sending of queued notifications (emails/SMS/WhatsApp), and access debug information among other things.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N